Letters

Lyndon Johnson had it right after all

Ed Feulner, in his guest commentary for the Cheney Free Press, July 3, 2014, says that he’s learned, “you can’t improve something unless you can measure it.” He then goes on to label Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ “an abject failure” without measuring anything. According to Feulner, “an ever expanding portion of the population” is receiving the largess of LBJ’s War on Poverty. Apparently the management course Feulner credits with teaching him about measuring things didn’t include the concept of “ceteris paribus,” i.e., other things being equal.

Austin Ni...