One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just for point of reference, what Dr King as referring to was President Johnson's package of social welfare reforms and programs that was called "Great Society" (not sure if this is the same thing as the "War on Poverty", but I think it was). Because Lyndon Johnson tried to run a war on the cheap (no state of emergency or large scale mobilization of the Reserve Components) and enormously expand social welfare programs at the same time, the country kind of hit a finanacial crisis, but it's unclear how much money you have to have to make everyone happy, healthy and free from poverty. Actually, no it's not, as no one has that much money. People need jobs and a hand up, but certainly not hand outs (especially for life)
