How Lyndon Johnson and the Left Turned Us Into The United States of Welfare

When various rankings of the best or worst presidents come out, they tend to list all of the usual suspects. However, I have yet to encounter a list that compiles and ranks the most consequential of presidents. One could argue that President Lyndon Johnson was the most consequential president in history and not for the better.

Johnson announced his War on Poverty in his 1964 State of the Union address. He then pushed through 200 new laws that included the start of Medicare, Medicaid, direct federal aid to public schools, bilingual education, Head Start, food stamps, vocational education through Job Corps, urban renewal programs, massive spending for the arts and humanities, an enormous increase in immigration, section 8 public housing, federal aid for college students and last but not least government media in the forms of PBS and NPR.