Margaret Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of someone else's money to spend. Supposedly, the purpose in working at McDonalds is to steal from the rich, since everything belongs to the 1%ers. The 1%ers are misusing someone else's money.

No one could ever explain why the Vietnam War existed. The peace demonstrations during the sixties were constantly questioning why the Vietnam War existed. No one could ever explain why.

I spent most of my life on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. My dad was an auto mechanic in a nearby town, but I spent the summers on a farm where my grandparents used to live, after my grandpa died of a heart attack when I was eleven years old. Later, I moved onto the farm and did mushroom research.

The Indians were living in tar paper shacks scattered around the reservation with almost no income. A few would do farm work in the summers. Some had land which they would rent to farmers. In the early 1950s, when I would be on my grandparents farm, the Indians whom my grandpa was renting land from would show up with a horse drawn wagon and get water from the well. They couldn't afford their own well.

In 1960, I was a sophomore in high school. In May, Democrats were campaigning in the presidential primaries including Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy. So LBJ showed up in the river bluffs of the Indian reservation to give a speech. A company from Texas, Jones, Brown and Root, got the primary contract for constructing the Big Bend Dam on the Missouri River, and LBJ was giving the ground breaking ceremony being a senator from Texas.

There were about a hundred whites and fifty Indians plus a high school band which I was in. LBJ got up on a wooden platform and said, when he becomes president, he was going to create a welfare system which would make life easier for the Indians. The Indians said, hooptalla, hooptalla. He said he was going to create free houses for the Indians in town. The Indians said, hooptalla, hooptalla. LBJ said he was going to create schools, hospitals and utilities in the Indian towns. The Indians said, hooptalla, hooptalla. As LBJ was stepping down from the wooden platform, one of his aids said, be careful, Lyndon, don't step in the hooptalla.

With LBJ's "Great Society Program", all of those things happened. About half of the Indians got jobs with the local government, and some got welfare through the Aid to Dependent Children program. There were still no jobs for some, but local communities took form on the Indian reservations with a degree of humanness.

LBJ had been working on his Great Society program since he was in the Senate. He got the programs through the process in 1965-67. His Great Society programs created most of the government social programs that presently exist beyond the Social Security system created by FDR.

The Aid To Dependent Children program was ended during the 1990s, because it was supposedly causing the "welfare queens" to have more children. About $80 billion dollars was being spent each year on that program. No substitute was created, and there was no replacement for the $80 billion per year removed from the low class society. Now days, that amount would be about $200 billion per year removed from the social state of the lower classes. Taking that much money out of the lower classes has had a lot to do with the social problems that presently exist.

Conservatives have been fighting a continuous war over the past 50 years against every element of the social programs that LBJ created. When adding up the past 50 years of anti-socialism along with the total purposelessness of the Vietnam War, the purpose of the Vietnam War shows up as an attempt to disrupt the Johnson Administration to such an extent that LBJs Great Society programs would not get through Congress.