What caused the end of the Great Society?
What caused the end of the Great Society? Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated or had their funding reduced, many of them, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act and federal education funding, continue to the present. What were the effects of President Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs? 195 million Americans were affected by programs initiated by Johnson. Yet, the Great Society and Johnson's "War on Poverty" had their critics. Some said that it added layers of bureaucracy and wasted money...