[Mr.Unique]

Interesting read. There is a version of the story from the National Park Service that borders on propaganda: https://www.nps.gov/Nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/157arthurdale/157arthurdale.htm

[ConjunctionJunction]

The footnotes are also quite entertaining!

[Roccus]

Just another socialist failure...even with, or because of government backing.

[Boogieman]

“Harry Hopkins, hand picked by FDR to run FERA, hand picked one Lorena Hickok to be a FERA “investigator” in West Virginia, to check out the local scene, and to report back with any suggestions.

Thrown into hysterics and horrified by the plight of West Virginia’s indigent coal miners, on returning to Washington D.C. she breathlessly reported to Eleanor Roosevelt that “the only way out of the mess” she could fathom was that FDR become an “absolute dictator” (Thomas 1998, p. 117).”

For those who don’t know these characters, Harry Hopkins was a Soviet spy, and Lorena Hickok was Eleanor Roosevelt’s dyke lover.

[dirtymac]

We continue to apply the same ridiculous logic to federal programs and get the same results. This is why progressivism (communism) only works with an absolute dictator but only for a very short time until the source of other people’s money dries up.

[Excellence]

Armed they’re still doing it by forcing quiet suburbs to house “refugees” that barely know how to use a toilet.