[general_re]

Oh, well, if NPR said it. Nevermind that FDR was dead in 1946, and the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed in 1938, and that states and localities had passed the first child-labor laws as early as the 1830's. Nevermind all that - NPR told him...

[AIG]

In any case, countries develop things like labor, environmental, and other socialist policies only gradually, after they have become rich enough to have their own versions of liberal elitists.