I think LBJ added fuel to a fire that was started not long before.

There's a basic principle in government that I've yet to see disproven.

When you subsidize something, you get more of it.

So, subsidizing poverty makes more of it, even though they SAID, at the time, they were fighting it. Nobody every looked at the 'endgame' of welfare. They just assumed that people would eventually find jobs and get off public assistance. Assuredly, some did. A lot did not - and started generational welfare.