FDR, the government had to haul us out of the Depression. There were make-work programs and subsidies of one kind and another, including the implied subsidy of official protections for labor unions. Then, in the ’50s, Washington had to oversee and maintain our post-war good times.This is the classic, unexamined and erroneous history that was taught to all of us following FDR's death.
It is false. Amity Shlaes debunked this constant myth in her excellent great depression history "The Forgotten Man."
The American Spectator : The Problem Isn’t Obama
The problem is… us.
So, then, just how did we get here…?
Obama said X, and Cruz said Y, and O’Reilly and MSNBC and Reid and Pelosi went into hyperdrive, and…and…?
The chronological congruence of the government “shutdown” crisis and the launch of Obamacare (I exclude current foreign policy topics for reasons of space) suggests the need for aspirin washed down with a couple of stiff ones.
I have my own theory. It is that events have been building toward this moment of pain and agony for about 70 years — ever since the historical moment when the American electorate told Franklin Roosevelt it was time the federal government started sorting out the particulars of economic growth and distribution. No one figured out (or anyway could be heard saying) that the more resources Washington felt obliged to oversee, the shriller would grow demands that the bounty go into this pocket or that one.
The current crisis is only peripherally about health care exchanges and spending resolutions and vitriol spewed by the political and journalistic fraternities. The current crisis, at its heart, is about greed and the human lust for authority over other humans.
It is what happens when the government — a construct made up of humans — acquires, one way or another, nearly uninhibited power over a society’s financial resources. ...
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