Lyndon, Reagan, and Bush.....Wars against the people

[Flabbergasted]

Remember Johnson's War on Poverty:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964johnson-warpoverty.html
Proposal for A Nationwide War On The Sources of Poverty'

Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to Congress, March 16, 1964

Because it is right, because it is wise, and because, for the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty, I submit, for the consideration of the Congress and the country, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.


Reagan's War on Drugs.....

What a tremendous success that has been....


And now the new war

Bush's war on immigrants.....


Go Back to the Drawing Board George.

No More Wars....

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. But War is Big Business

It's so profitable.

[Grateful for Hope]

2. Bush is no more declaring war on immigrants

than he truly has the welfare of the American public at heart.

This is a distraction. It is also in the interests of big business, because the outcry that is occurring right now (and which will be amplified tomorrow) is playing right into the hands of big business.

What immigrants should be doing, IMHO, is protesting for higher wages and better working conditions.

[Flabbergasted]

5. I don't think so.....I really doubt that Mcdonalds etc is looking forward

to this short term or long term....It has already spiraled and is approaching a public relations disaster. I think its another strike against Bush for the mid-terms.

[Grateful for Hope]

6. Could be

but, again IMHO, this is going to backfire.

[Flabbergasted]

7. How?

[Grateful for Hope]

8. It will anger citizens

who have to take up the slack, and it will further the wedge between those who do not believe that those who come to this country without bothering to abide by our laws should have the same rights as those who do.

And, if there are any visible ramifications, it will give the Bush administration an excuse to back-track, and, thus, the real winners will be those employers who hire illegals in the first place. This is what I think the plan has been all along.

And, as I said before, this issue has been a distraction and has served to further divide a country already divided.

[Flabbergasted]

10. It will anger citizens but overall it will not have any noticeable impact

Considering all the attrocites Bush has created and the lack of a public response I don't see much coming out of this from the public.

In my opinion what we on the left need to be using this for is unity. We need tobe out there spreading our message tomorrow...No War/No Bush/Election Reform/Whatever....We can use it to OUR advantage.

Also I think it is a minority of the pop that is all to concerned about immigration.

[Grateful for Hope]

11. I like the unity message

I definitely am all for it.

thanks!

[Flabbergasted]

12. Spread it. We have 24 hours.....

[Grateful for Hope]

13. I hear you. n/t

[dajoki]

3. Don't forget...

LBJ's Great Society programs, not perfect, but a step in the right direction.(medicare, civil rights, etc.) I remember reading that one of his top advisors(can't remember who) told him that if he signs these bills he would be giving up the south for Dems for many years to come. Turned out to be true, but he did the right thing.

[Flabbergasted]

4. He was also in the back pocket of big oil and B and R....

[dajoki]

14. I said he wasn't perfect...

he had many faults. I was only talking about one thing.

[Greyhound]

9. Amerika's business is war

it's what we do. The world's largest arms dealer, many times greater than #2 Russia. Foreign policy developed explicitly to provoke more and bigger wars all over the globe.

It's what we've always done and we apparently like it.