What’s the Second Coming of FDR Without a Depression?

Pajamas Media ^ | August 24, 2010 | Ed Driscoll

[Rashputin]

And we know that Keynes’ medicine — spend ‘til a nation is even more broke than it was at the start of the Depression — wouldn’t go over well with the American people during 1932, since it wasn’t a part of Roosevelt’s platform. FDR, to listen to him, seemed most concerned with ending Prohibition, and far from promoting massive Make Work Projects, in some ways, ran to the right of Herbert Hoover.

But thanks to almost three quarters of a century worth of self-perpetuated myths, today’s liberals actually couldn’t wait for the 21st century economy to collapse before literally promising to dust-off 70-year old programs. Pennsylvania Democrat Paul Kanjorski was quoted in May of 2008 as saying:

“All we’re doing is going into the basket and saying, ‘Damn, what did they do in ‘32, what did they do in ‘34, what did they do in ‘36,’ and we’re pulling them out, dusting them off, giving them a paint job, correcting the fenders a bit, and we’re using them…To get us through the horrendous problems we may have over the next several years, we’ve got to make these old programs work, and we’ve got to be as inventive as hell.”

[Zeddicus]

We have 41 million on food stamps, that is modern version of a soup line. There are only 80 million households in the US.

Exactly! I say this all the time to whomever will listen: Food stamps are today's soup lines equivalent. The ignorant American public at large doesn't see actual soup lines of hungry people on TV, and a food stamp statistic just doesn't carry the same visceral impact.

So yeah, we ARE in a depression. With California already insolvent and paying vendors with worthless IOUs, how long do we think Big Brother can continue the charade?

[CodeToad]

I believe Kansas is also paying using IOUs.

[Texas resident]

Democrats want this country to collapse with them in charge. Shortly after 9/11, the dim media was all in a tizzy because bill clinton wasn’t in power when the attack happened. And the reason was that he would have an opportunity to shine. Just flat out sick.