LBJ had a good advice and that is stay in school.

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We live in very rural west virginia on the far west southern side and it is so poverty stricken to this day, am the only one around this mountain that has a pc and forget about cell phones they wouldnt work here there is no signal, the food pantries at two church houses keep getting robbed, those that survive grow their own food the ones that dont have food stamps or dont want them that is. there isnt any jobs anywhere there is nothing to look forward to except death to get away from this quadmire of poverty. for those of us who are able to farm a tad we can eat and that is about it. most cant afford utitlies us and several others cook on wood stoves and heat the house with it in the winter. we have a milk cow so we are lucky and i can make butter and cheese to,

@SacrificialLamb71

7 жыл бұрын

I wish you well, my friend. Life sounds hard there.

@JustMeELC

6 жыл бұрын

I am disgusted you must endure such hardship in the richest country... humanity is being destroyed by greed

Looks like we lost the War on Poverty... the War on Drugs... smoke and mirrors (pun intended), all of it.

@bluenorm

4 жыл бұрын

not really. MEDICARE

A little heart and philanthropy goes a long way. If you are a large business owner, and are concerned with charitable contributions, a great thing to do would be to open up shop in areas that are impoverished. The ROI would be crap, but that's why it's a charitable contribution. You're giving back, but you're giving back in a way that will continue to perpetuate a cycle of prosperity for an area in need. Secondly, I have seen this firsthand and it really irritates me, we have modern day carpet bagging going on. Just two houses down from us in EKY, a guy from Illinois moved down and purchased +/- 125 acres. He logged it, apprehended a lot of coal from the hillside, then set up two oil wells. He bled that land dry, sold it for a song and moved on. Made a huge profit, but didn't stick around to spend it locally. I don't trust anyone moving to EKY that doesn't come to raise their family and stick around.

@paragozar

7 жыл бұрын

Jimmy, is that you?

Last best efforts of working with an archaic economic order. Automation and a new distribution system that was invented to support DoD's war effort in SE Asia. Containerization is a product of the VietNam era. Some regions in the world have realized that more than a 6 hour day is untenable if everybody is going to work and keep the consumer end of things going. Life support systems and infrastructure are cheaper by the dozen so to speak and solves 2 of 3 problems. Coins are made round to roll. If they roll into a small corner the game is over. LBJ's heart was in the right place, but he didn't have a chance against MIC, Dulles craziness and the mineral industries, et. al. which now control the resources that were supposed to be dedicated to the purposes of a Great Society.

He may have gotten off to a good start helping out impoverished people in this country but he blew all the money on Vietnam. That was a far worse mistake in policy than handing poor people in Appalachia and other places, welfare money. Some progress had been made, but poverty is still rampant in parts of the country as we fritter away billions overseas on senseless conflicts and foreign aid to countries that don't deserve it. I hate to see our tax dollars wasted in this way. I'd rather it was spent on English speaking people like this who were born in America.

There seems to be nothing more entertaining that viewing "antique poverty films" ... 7/4/2020 SRC

This man did the best he can do

empty promises are old as time itself

10:38 it was City Hall and it was never the court house.

I Am from inez live down the road from the house where he started it the inez court house is no longer used the courts went to the courts building behind it and the offices went to the goverment center the building with the for sale sign is vacant the texaco station is no longer there it now a parking lot

the crowds are one color

@michaelg7904

4 жыл бұрын

White privilege, evidently.

We were very fortunate to have such a great president

It's obvious from this video we lost the war on poverty, war on drugs, war on obesity, war on corruption, war on vice, and war on bad manners, bad clothing, bad hygiene, and bad morals. People looked healthier, dressed nicer, and seemed more genuine back then.

@littlesofty01

3 жыл бұрын

Because we didn't have liberals

A true two faced spinner of honesty, he's ego was the size of Texas & this just happens to be where he ride himself of his greatest problem, yes it was Nov 22 1963,...

Some of these comments are beyond what i'd call outrageous and at the very best, ill-informed.

Exactly 50 years ago! The only thing that has changed is that this kind of gross. personal kudos exercise cum self-promotional stunt in the guise of helping the poor has become a great deal more sophisticated in execution when it is used today but there is still little change in the proportional distribution of wealth. In fact the sums involved now are astronomical on the other side in comparison. Doesn't it make you wonder what government is all about?

If LBJ was so concerned about poverty in America he should have enacted the recommendations of the "Riot Report".

A lot of good LBJ's program did! :-) This is basically a PR trip for the former president.

Well I think LBJ thought he was making real progress, at the time it was impossible to know that most social programs can't really help people that need to help them self's....even today a lot of well meaning people believe goverment should solve every persons problems

Election year. This tour turned alot of these counties blue for the first time. Only to send alot of them to Vietnam.

Birth control pill vending machines would solve many of these problems. This would be silly and/or a religious violation to some but...

@JustMeELC

6 жыл бұрын

Johhny Apollo Ugh... how about well funded education convenient & available to everyone

@earthshades7550

5 жыл бұрын

For sure. At Most america can hold 100 million not 320 million people

this is all talk talk speeches ..I like to see a president ,senator , or any rich person (using their own money -not govt.$) Set up clinics that would preform sterilization operations on people. These operations would be free and in low income areas even pay the person to have this done. If I was to become rich -thus I would not stay rich- for I would do this.all over the planet . I would also support adoption centers , and reward people for recycling and using less grid energy

government government government. the democrats are still the same

@Canopus68

7 жыл бұрын

Who else but the government?? Do you have deep pockets to go in and help these people? I'll bet not. We had a tradition of helping people in this country, but that's gone. So who is left the government---town, county, and federal. I love the people like Chris Go(see below) who says that "...if you choose to be on welfare..." I guess Chris is in favor of letting them starve to death so they can choose to be not on welfare. The few jobs--mostly coal and the railroads are GONE--the L&N doesn't stop here anymore. The jobs beyond that were shipped over seas by Bill Clinton. So what is left? Not much. I had great hopes that we would elect a president who would recognize and try to help the poor. Instead the we got a rich man who gets all his information from Fox news. This isn't about liberals or conservatives, it is about all of us. If we don't get our act together then all of us will be in the same boat as these people--except for the top 1%.

@michaelg7904

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Canopus68 Looks like God might have made you to help the poor. I know He made me to. ;)

Watching this 1964 campaign propaganda film it astounds me that it ignores "the elephant in the room" cause of poverty - high birth rates! This old film tells of a an Appalachian father with ten children & another with seven! A good anti-poverty measure would be an ounce of prevention say a local health clinic offering vasectomies as a requirement for Government aid & education on family planning.

@JohnDavis-te5un

8 жыл бұрын

+Ron Haag If people would have at 4 kids per average American home today their would be less people growing old faster then the birth rate.

@ronhaag1968

8 жыл бұрын

I think we should limit our country's reproductive rate to two offspring per family; If a couple wants only one or no biological off-spring than they could offer to transfer their "allotment" to another couple. I realize this smacks of "Orwellian" social control but what frighten's me is unplanned out-of-control growth on our one & only habitable planet.