I’m here as long as I don’t lose power or something. Kind of a nice calm thundershower going on so I should be OK.
Hello, Comrades. Ready for Founders Friday!
Years ago I was driving through Kansas when a thunderstorm came up. It was beautiful as well as frightening.
On Henry Morganthau:
His biggest success was the new Social Security program; he reversed the proposals to fund it from general revenue and insisted it be funded by new taxes on employees. Morgenthau insisted on excluding farm workers and domestic servants from Social Security because workers outside industry would not be paying their way.[4] He is quoted in doubting the huge spending schemes in The New Deal that haven’t reduced unemployment and only added debt:[5]
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgenthau,_Jr.