The Great Society

President Johnson’s Great Society

            Although the Great Society was an establishment with good motives, I disagree with President Johnson’s position. The Great Society was a set of domestic programs. The main reasons for creating the Great Society were to eliminate poverty and to eliminate racial injustice.

            The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched during this period. The Great Society in resembled the New Deal domestic agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

            President Johnson’s Great Society was a failure. The concept of the government taking care of the people who couldn't take care of themselves wasn't a bad idea, but that hasn't been the actual impact. The availability of welfare and Medicaid has actually discouraged people from trying to make their world better through education and hard work.