Posted on 11/23/2005 9:37:58 AM PST by smoothsailing
works for me!
BS. My father didn't have two nickels to rub together. He lived too far out in the country to commute on horse back to high school. He left home at 14 and got room and board from a man that owned a tavern in exchange for cleaning up the place and waiting tables when they needed help in a pinch. He finished high school and went on to college. He lived in the basement of a boarding house and did odd jobs including some tutoring and paper correcting in junior and senior years of college.
My mother's parents owned the boarding house where he lived. They saved thirty bucks to buy rings and other expenses to get married. Bought a used camping trailer to live in. Nobody had any money but they looked down on the WPA make-work projects and the rest of Roosevelt's nonsense alphabet programs. In spite of all that, my father thought Roosevelt deserved some credit for attempting to do something. It took me a number of years to finally convince my Dad that socialism never makes sense. It transfers productive capital from the people who produced it and are better judges of how to deploy it. Worse, it transfer that capital, to the poorly productive or non-productive who generally consume it. In socialism, everybody loses. The productive lose the benefit of their capital that would allow them to become even more productive while allowing them to save against times or conditions when they might not be or choose not to be productive for whatever reason. The poorly productive have reduced incentives to acquire the skills or work habits to become more productive.
As for the depression, Roosevelt made it worse and prolonged it. It is nonsense to believe fascism or communism would have erupted if the depression conditions had not been as bad and ended sooner.
A group of Freepers is post a series of articles aimed at restoring the Constitution. This is the best way to end socialism and the tyranny of the left. The most recent article is found here.
Please join us in this effort. Make everybody's Christmas merrier by taking The Pledge.
Thanks for the kind compliment. It's very humbling and very nice. I do appreciate it, jla.
A sample of what's to come at Christmas, but even better.
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