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Someone I know recently said Johnson started the “opportunity zones” which is false. Johnson was responsible for the Great Society. In 1964, "Johnson was about to open the spigots of federal spending like never before in the areas of education, health care, and welfare, promising that Washington would improve schools and lift families out of poverty.”

Johnson’s economic handouts "proved to be a curse on taxpayers and low-income families.”

I am quoting from National Review, Oct 26, 2019:

Washington has spent $2 trillion on K–12 schools since 1965, yet there has been no improvement in actual student learning for disadvantaged students compared with their peers. The achievement gap between children from low-income families and wealthier students was the equivalent of four years of learning decades ago and remains that size today. There has, however, been a notable increase in the bureaucracy. The number of administrators has increased 137 percent since the 1960s.


Today the federal government originates and services 90 percent of all student loans, spending $150 billion annually on loans and grants. Tuition at public four-year universities has increased 213 percent (after accounting for inflation) since 1987. Meanwhile, a slightly smaller proportion of students from families in the bottom quartile of the income distribution graduate from college today, the very students Johnson’s loan programs were supposed to help.

By any measurable indicator, the Great Society has been a bust for students.


To make matters worse, special-interest groups have captured many instructional materials and steered classrooms away from content-based teaching and toward subjective analyses of race and oppression. Schools are not helping students become productive citizens.


Want proof? The 2019 Annenberg Public Policy Center Civics Survey found that more than one in five respondents could not name any branch of the U.S. government. One-quarter could only name one branch, which means nearly half of adults cannot even begin to explain how our government operates.

SEE: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/the-great-society-and-opportunity-lost/

OPPORTUNITY ZONES

in which I wrote about in this article: https://mojomorning.blogspot.com/2018/12/opportunity-zones.html

December 12, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to provide incentives for small businesses to invest in "opportunity zones," distressed and long-neglected American communities.

Issued on: December 12, 2018, under section 3, Mission and Function of the Council, to facilitate investment in “qualified opportunity zones” to encourage economic growth in “economically distressed communities” in accordance “with preserving State, local, and tribal control”.

The executive order establishes a White House Council to work with State, local, and tribal governments in consultation with the General Services Administration to determine which economically distressed communities will receive the funds. (1)



To SEE the FULL LENGTH Executive Oder, 12/12/2018, click HERE



Some of the distressed communities are in states hardest hit by globalism and free trade agreements like NAFTA, (2) the North American Free Trade Agreement and TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.


What Johnson offered the people was a handout that served to keep them poor. What Trump is offering people is a hand up, a chance to better themselves rather than be a drain on society. Johnson didn’t make America Great, Trump is DOING it.