Repeating the Mistakes of The Great Society, with Amity Shlaes

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Historian Amity Shlaes joins us for a new look at the origins and aftermath of LBJ's Great Society – the massive federal poverty-reduction programs of the 1960's. The debates in that era were the same debates today: socialism vs capitalism, public-sector vs private-sector, victimhood vs self-empowerment. And the cost of these programs led to devastating outcomes which are still unfolding to this day.

Amity Shlaes’ most recent book is Great Society: A New History. She is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man/Graphic, Coolidge, and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy. Miss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Book Prize, and serves as a scholar at the King's College. A former member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, Miss Shlaes published a weekly syndicated column for more than a decade, appearing first in the Financial Times, then in Bloomberg. Follow her on Twitter at @AmityShlaes.

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0:00.0	We have hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	But all men are created.
0:04.0	Because I remember Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.0	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:09.0	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.0	China, bio-terrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:22.0	Here you go, I have landed.
0:26.0	Welcome back, everybody.
0:27.0	This is a cool conversation today.
0:29.0	One of the problems that I think both the left and the right, possibly agree on,
0:34.0	although with wildly different solutions, is we want people to be less poor.
0:38.0	We want inner cities to develop.
0:40.0	We want people to get good jobs.
0:42.0	We want people to live a life where they're not going to bed every night,
0:47.0	completely freaked out about how they're going to pay their bills the next day.
0:51.0	That seems to be something that everybody can agree on.
0:55.0	But we have vastly different ways to get there.
0:57.0	One of the first, I guess battles with poverty started with the Great Society under Lyndon B. Johnson
1:06.0	and the war on poverty.
1:08.0	There's a lot of different opinions on that.
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