Washington DC Adult Entertainment: George W. Bush Was No Ronald Reagan
Written on March 11, 2010 – 8:49 am | by larrylibido
When Ronald Reagan was elected president of the United States in 1980, he referred to our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., as a swampland and urged his appointees in the federal government to help him “drain the swamps.” As my friend and fellow conservative Stan Evans likes to say, the problem was that, after a while, the swamp began to feel more like a hot tub for a number of the President’s appointees.
I saw that firsthand as the head of an independent federal agency known then as Action. The agency had been established in the Kennedy/Johnson years as the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). OEO became a major funding source for the “poverty pimps,” primarily East Coast-based consultants who got large government grants to fight the “War on Poverty.” Many of the so-called poverty warriors got rich off taxpayer dollars, but very little of the money trickled down to the poor people the agency was supposed to help. By the late 60’s, it had become a hotbed for the newly fashionable radicals of that decade.