Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140109:03:32:00
In the washington monthly in 1999, if there is a prize for the political scam of the 20th century, it should go to the conservatives for propagating as conventional wisdom that the great society programs of the 1960s were misguided and failed social experiment that wasted taxpayers' money. in fact, from 1963 when lyndon johnson took office until 1970, as the impact of his great society programs were felt, the portion of americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22.2% to 12.6%. the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in the 20th semplgry. the current poverty rate in americ...