The buses to my old hood in the Bronx destroyed it too. Once very nice middle class area - turning into a cesspool b/c of the public bus.
Like importing a plague or disease into an area. Garbage, crime, slime, drugs, etc.
Very unfortunate. I don't blame minorities. I blame white lefties for destroying everything that they "fix."
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States first announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University, then at University of Michigan, 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_SocietyEconomist
Thomas Sowell argues that
the Great Society programs only contributed to the destruction of African American families, saying "the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that
subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society#African-American_family_structureEconomist Thomas Sowell