Posted on 01/16/2009 1:00:22 PM PST by fiscon1
Barack Obama’s lefty admirers are agitating for a new New Deal. We’ll know that we’ve achieved that blessed state when the government destroys 6 million baby pigs—turning many of them into grease and fertilizer (anything but food)—to prop up the price of pork. Or when it plows under a quarter of the South’s cotton and slaughters pregnant cows.
American agricultural policy remains perverse to this day, but nobody is calling for the willy-nilly destruction of American crops and livestock as a means of checking deflation and fostering economic recovery. New Deal nostalgics forget all the elements of Franklin Roosevelt’s program that were frankly absurd and economically ruinous.
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In the new New Deal, baby pigs will be slaughtered not to prop up the price of pork, but to appease our future Islamonazi masters.
The New Deal FAILED. World War Two brought us out of the Great Depression.
FDR was a prodigious political talent, whose high spirits and well-chosen words inspired the public, and a man of great personal courage. He left his imprint forever on American government, for better or worse. He was an exceptional wartime leader. Much can be said in his favor—but he didn’t end the Great Depression. Barack Obama, take note.
. . . and if you judge FDR the way all other presidents are judged by history - solely on the results of their first (and at most, second) terms - FDR is the failure who did not get the country going again economically and who did not prevent WWII.Admittedly, preventing WWII would have been an uphill battle. But if he had had Winston Churchill's perspective on its necessity, and if he had allowed the economy to recover with low taxes and low regulation, it would not have been any harder than getting the country going again, whipping inflation, stopping the energy crisis, and facing down the Soviet Union was for Reagan.
You and I don’t, but many in American yearn for a New Deal.
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