[Bernard Marx]

I've long thought that the whole mess we're in, with taxes out the wazoo and gubmint largesse flowing into the hands of do-nothings, all has its roots in FDR's meddling with the economy like no president before him.

Roosevelt was much enamored of socialist economist John Maynard Keynes and of "Uncle Joe" Stalin. Keynes believed that the market could not take care of itself so proposed direct government intervention in economic matters. I think everyone now knows what "Uncle Joe" believed. Anyhow, you're right: Franklin Roosevelt, patrician fool that he was for the most part, brought socialism to America.