You were not present at our dinner table when I was a kid, so you did not hear the nightly speeches from our father about “The Great White Father” and his elimination of...
- individual effort
- restraint on government legally and in re spending
- the effect on small businesspeople
- the savaging of future values of currency by the unfunded mandate of Social Security that was not being held for ‘retirement’
- states rights
- individual rights
- government sovereignty in favor of ‘the 500’ (people who actually ruled the world)
Every night. Every single night, except for those times he left for work at 7 am and got home after 11 pm...for a 2.5% profit, worked for himself and bet the farm more than twice (and lost once). And guess what. He grew up as a democrat—but didn’t stay that way after the Great Depression I. It is only in the last few years that I have come to appreciate the desperation for hard work which accompanied him, my mother and all of us kids who worked our tails off from very young ages.
Oh yes. All income earned over $25,000 per year were taxed at 100% under FDR. Look it up.
“Pay people to go relocate to affordable small towns in real places”
Sounds familiar, I gotnot only lectures on politics but the everyday fapenings from the local to the international at breakfastand dinner from the time I could sit up in a high chair.
My parents were Republican and hated FDR with a passion,
They were smart and worked hard and saved enough durring the depression to start a business without borrowing and build a 2,400 sq.ft home in a high class neighborhood in Los Angeles in 1936.