The Great Society is the lineal descendant and the intensification of those other pretentiously named policies of 20th-century America: the Square Deal, the New Freedom, the New Era, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the New Frontier. All of these assorted Deals constituted a basic and fundamental shift in American life — a shift from a relatively laissez-faire economy and minimal state to a society in which the state is unquestionably king.
Murray N. Rothbard was a critic of the Lyndon B. Johnson plan to grow government by making people reliant upon it. This may not have been LBJ's intention - it's hard to say what his intention was - but, if we had listened to Mr. Rothbard then, we would be better off now.
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