FDR Would’ve Loved Wu Flu Relief Bills – IOTW Report

FDR Would’ve Loved Wu Flu Relief Bills

American Greatness

In his survey of the Great Depression and World War II, Freedom From Fear, historian David Kennedy makes the point that the New Deal—which manifestly failed to end the Depression—was only a failure if you assume that its purpose was, in fact, to end the Depression.

Likewise, the Democrats’ attempt at pushing their wish list of a Wuhan virus rescue bill.

If you assume, instead, that the purpose of the New Deal was to restructure the government’s relationship to the people and to society, then it was certainly a success. This is especially true of the so-called Second New Deal, passed mostly in 1935, which included Social Security, the Banking Act, the Wagner Act, other workplace protections, and unemployment insurance. Designed to provide a measure of security to periodically unemployed workers, it also made sure that people—for the first time—habitually looked to the government as the source of that security.

If you assume that its secondary purpose was to cement an emerging Democratic Party political coalition, then it was potentially an even greater success. More

5 Comments on FDR Would’ve Loved Wu Flu Relief Bills

  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson and Barack H. Obama did more to destroy this Constitutional Republic and wreck the internal stability of this country than all the foreign tyrants who forced the United States to defend itself in foreign wars. Herbert C. Hoover and Barry Goldwater would have been much better choices. McCain and Romney not much better than Osmidgen.

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