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There were a lot of enthusiastic spending programs and civil rights reforms in the 1960’s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Im

There were a lot of enthusiastic spending programs and civil rights reforms in the 1960’s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, Civil Rights Act of 1968 (which included the Fair Housing Act), the establishment of Medicare, Medicaid, federal funding for elementary and secondary schools, Job Corps, Head Start, expansion of Social Security benefits, the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio, the Department of Transportation (along with federal funding for mass transit and high speed rail), the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, and food stamps, just to name the highlights.

wolverine876 3y ago
What is your point? That they happened and therefore had sufficient support and capability? In particular ... > enthusiastic spending programs ... what does "enthusiastic" mean here? Enthusiastic support? There was plenty of opposition.
- philwelch 3y ago
  Try reading the comment I was responding to for context. I was responding to these claims in particular: > But in 1969 it was not settled that the country should fix civil rights. I responded to that by enumerating some of the civil rights laws that were passed during the 1960's. > Probably Apollo would have been received differently by many people if other, more humane areas had seen as enthusiastic spending. I agree that "enthusiastic spending" is an awkward phrase, but I was specifically calling back to actionfromafar's usage of it. And I responded by listing all of the humane spending programs that had been enacted in that period, ranging from Medicare and Medicaid to Social Security expansion to new funding programs for education, food stamps, transportation, and other such things. In reality the administration of Lyndon Johnson was the second greatest expansion of the American federal welfare state in history (after the New Deal); it's simply not true to claim that the federal government during that period lacked "enthusiasm" for such things.
  - wolverine876 3y ago
    You're right that I didn't look at the other comments. Your comment was worth reading. I agree, btw, I was just trying to make sense of that part.

wolverine876 3y ago

What is your point? That they happened and therefore had sufficient support and capability? In particular ... > enthusiastic spending programs ... what does "enthusiastic" mean here? Enthusiastic support? There was plenty of opposition.

philwelch 3y ago
Try reading the comment I was responding to for context. I was responding to these claims in particular: > But in 1969 it was not settled that the country should fix civil rights. I responded to that by enumerating some of the civil rights laws that were passed during the 1960's. > Probably Apollo would have been received differently by many people if other, more humane areas had seen as enthusiastic spending. I agree that "enthusiastic spending" is an awkward phrase, but I was specifically calling back to actionfromafar's usage of it. And I responded by listing all of the humane spending programs that had been enacted in that period, ranging from Medicare and Medicaid to Social Security expansion to new funding programs for education, food stamps, transportation, and other such things. In reality the administration of Lyndon Johnson was the second greatest expansion of the American federal welfare state in history (after the New Deal); it's simply not true to claim that the federal government during that period lacked "enthusiasm" for such things.
- wolverine876 3y ago
  You're right that I didn't look at the other comments. Your comment was worth reading. I agree, btw, I was just trying to make sense of that part.