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When it comes to public employee unions, FDR sounded absolutely Reaganesque

It turns out that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was absolutely Reaganesque, especially when it came to public employee unions.

In the early days of Barack Obama’s presidency we were told that he was the reincarnation of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Time magazine even ran the cover below in which Obama’s face was Photoshopped onto FDR’s body.

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The Obama-is-FDR story line isn't working as well as the left had hoped

Then the American people rejected the Obama agenda in the 2010 elections, so the Democrats cooked up a new tale for public consumption: Obama is Reaganesque. He was photographed carrying a Reagan bio. The media called his State of the Union address “absolutely Reaganesque.”

Now it turns out that it was Roosevelt who was absolutely Reaganesque, especially when it came to public employee unions.

RealClearPolitics.com lets FDR explain it in his own words:

Roosevelt’s reign certainly was the bright dawn of modern unionism. The legal and administrative paths that led to 35% of the nation’s workforce eventually unionizing by a mid-1950s peak were laid by Roosevelt.

But only for the private sector. Roosevelt openly opposed bargaining rights for government unions.

“The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,” Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, “I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place” in the public sector. “A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government.”

So FDR, reviled by conservatives as the father of socialist America, sounds a lot more conservative, a lot more like Ronald Reagan than Barack Obama does.

We’ll let you decide who Obama sounds like.

(Hint: Lenin)

Source: RealClearPolitics.com

Paul Krugman says Hitler, not Roosevelt, ended the Great Depression

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times liberal lunatic Paul Krugman has thrown FDR under the bus. He now admits that Roosevelt’s tax-and-spend socialism didn’t end the Great Depression, but World War II did.

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times liberal lunatic Paul Krugman has thrown FDR under the bus. He now admits that Roosevelt’s tax-and-spend socialism didn’t end the Great Depression, but World War II did.

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Paul Krugman wants you to take the $10,000 bill and go buy yourself a hamburger

We’re not sure he knows that’s what he did, but read his words from a recent column for yourself and see if that isn’t the obvious conclusion:

A naive view says that what we need is a return to virtue: everyone needs to save more, pay down debt, and restore healthy balance sheets.

The problem with this view is the fallacy of composition: when everyone tries to pay down debt at the same time, the result is a depressed economy and falling inflation, which cause the ratio of debt to income to rise if anything. That is, we’re living in a world in which the twin paradoxes of thrift and deleveraging hold, and hence in which individual virtue ends up being collective vice.

So what will happen? In the end, I’d argue, what must happen is an effective default on a significant part of debt, one way or another. The default could be implicit, via a period of moderate inflation that reduces the real burden of debt; that’s how World War II cured the depression. Or, if not, we could see a gradual, painful process of individual defaults and bankruptcies, which ends up reducing overall debt.

A little inflation. That’s all we need. And, of course, government economists are so adept at monetary policy that they will be able precisely control the amount of inflation they introduce into the economy.

Much like they’ve been able to precisely control the rest of the economy for the last two years.

Argentina, here we come.

Source: New York Times

Today is April 15, or as the Democrats like to call it, Thanksgiving

Mmmm, government cheese. Always one of the favorite menu items on Democrat Thanksgiving Day.
Mmmm, government cheese. Always one of the favorite menu items on Democrat Thanksgiving Day.
Today is Democrat Thanksgiving Day.

It’s the joyous annual holiday on which Democrats gather with their families, feast at the government trough, and give thanks for all the taxes they “forgot to pay” or “overlooked” or “got incorrect advice from their tax preparer” or “missed because of a glitch in TurboTax.”

Tom Daschle. Tim Geithner. Hilda Solis. Ron Kirk. Kathleen Sebelius. And half the other people nominated for positions in the Obama administration will be celebrating today. And they will offer this simple prayer: “We thank you, FDR, for the bounty you have given us. And for all those phony Schedule C deductions, too.”

Remember President Obama’s pledge to simplify the tax code? What he meant, obviously, was “It’s simple to cheat on your taxes and get away with it. Especially if you’re a Democrat.”

Obama parrots FDR poorly, says “The only thing we have is fear itself.”

So much for the triumph of hope over fear. In an op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post, President Obama attempted to scare the livin’ bejeebers out of everyone.

He warned Congress to act quickly on his “stimulus” bill and warned that that failure to act could plunge us into a recession that might prove irreversible.

Irreversible. The world will plunge into a recession – maybe a depression – from which we will never recover. Never.

“Never,” according to a source within the Democratic National Committee, is defined as “A period of time so long that Obama won’t get re-elected.”

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