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re: Who is/was your favorite president?
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:03 pm to Roger Klarvin
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:03 pm to Roger Klarvin
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If you want to blame someone for the current welfare state, your man is LBJ and his great society philosophy. He is the one who made sure that FDR's programs not only stuck around but expanded them.
I was more referring to the corporate welfare. For example, the bloated farm bill started under FDR. I believe Social Security did also. He had good intent, but failed to realize that once you give free handouts, it's political suicide to take them away in the future. Politicians should use more foresight before implementing any social programs, because once passed, they never go away.
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Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:05 pm to deltaland
Didn't Jimmy Carter start the deporting of jobs to China? Making America a tech country instead of an industrial country.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 7:06 pm to deltaland
FDR's only shortcoming was his naïve belief that Americans as a whole had a sense of shame and would be ok with moving away from welfare programs once we got back on our feet.
He was wrong. Thankfully for him, he never lived to mourn how wrong he was.
He was wrong. Thankfully for him, he never lived to mourn how wrong he was.
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