Ah, the great FDR and his “Brain Trust” — among their fantasies was belief in perpetual motion: just appear to do something and everything will work out.
FDR appointed the “first female Cabinet secretary,” Francis Perkins. She may have been, but she was also one of the first socialist cabinet secretaries. This idiot was in charge of industrial policy via her Dept. of Labor. Perkins wanted to force the automobile industry to produce one model, thinking that would create jobs and save the economy:
“This industry has accepted standardization for one year periods, but must extend its practices to include standardization over a period of years...I am old-fashioned enough still to admire the old Model T Ford.”
Idiot. But worse, a destructive idiot.
“’...Idiot. But worse, a destructive idiot. ....”
Aren’t they all ?