[PLUG-TALK] Way off topic - medicare, under 30's

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> Vedanta Teacher <orevedantateacher at gmail.com> writes:

> Medicaid & "Medi-scare" like Social security were always designed to
> be a 'pay-as-you-go' system; there is no 'trust fund'. They were both
> instituted by Johnson just after the assassination of Kennedy to buy
> votes & make him self popular. Johnson when instituting Welfare , '64
> again , when founding the "Great Society" acidly said: "If we get this
> passed we'll own those Ni..ers for the next 100 years!". Unfortunately
> he seems to have been correct.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/

Your claim is uncredible. If the goal was political, it was unproductive
because a more credible source quotes him saying: “I think we just
delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come”.

There is a more obvious justification for Johnson's civil rights and
other domestic legislation. It was the right thing to do.  I've been
watching this video of an interview of LBJ 10 days before he died:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW5PemdbcT8

Johnson was a complicated guy.  But one thing is clear to me: He got a
lot of important legislation passed that other presidents couldn't.


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Russell Senior