Newsweek: Bush's Plan to Repeal the New Deal

[BlueInRed]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6988217/site/newsweek/

~snip~
At issue is nothing less than the repeal of the whole idea behind the New Deal.

Peter Wehner, a key White House strategist, put it this way in a recent memo: “For the first time in six decades, the Social Security battle is one we can win—and in doing so, we can help transform the political and philosophical landscape of the country.” The White House wasn’t happy this leaked; it is claiming publicly with Orwellian logic that Bush wants simply to update the New Deal. But the history of this debate says otherwise.

. . . FDR’s handiwork is still so revered that the president must cast his proposal in the guise of saving Social Security. But Bush’s idea is almost 180 degrees from Roosevelt’s. The New Deal was about insuring against risk, so that disadvantaged people felt more secure in the knowledge that the government would help them stand against the vicissitudes of fate. The Bush Deal is about expanding risk, so that disadvantaged people feel more acutely than at any time since the 1920s that they are at sea amid unpredictable market forces, fending for themselves.
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[Cooley Hurd]

1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt SAVED this country!

...and these pathetic ninnies want to destroy it.

200 years from now, FDR will still have a memorial, and they'll have to bury the Bush family in unmarked graves to keep US citizens from taking craps on them.

That is, if the US and/or the Earth are still around...:(

[newscott]

2. I like your style.

:evilgrin:

[punpirate]

4. Amen to that...

... and it's about time that a prominent weekly, such as Newsweek, started calling this campaign of Bush's for what it is. Destruction.

Cheers.

[bunkerbuster1]

27. Indeed. I believe a new sig quote is called for.

thanks Cooley.

[carter9]

3. New Deal is more than Social Security

When Bush dreams about dismantling the New Deal, he's talking about more than Social Security. The New Deal spawned such anti-American programs as FDIC, health, education, welfare, home loan programs, labor programs. All the institutions and progressive programs that we fight so hard to protect have grown out of the New Deal. Check out, http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html for a better idea of the depth of the New Deal.

So, what Bush wants to dismantle is the very basis of democratic progress, reforms and institutions that have identified Democrats as a noble and compassionate breed, set apart from the greed and callousness of the Republicans.

[punpirate]

6. While I accept your irony...

... the New Deal spawned pro-American programs, not "anti-American" programs.

They're only anti-American to the very wealthy and fascist-minded in this country.

Cheers.

[newyawker99]

9. Hi carter9!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[shrike]

5. I've been telling people this for years

They want to roll back the New Deal. Nobody believes me. Now that it's in Newsweek, maybe some of them will.

[GetTheRightVote]

24. I totally agree with you on it, many other groups do as well though

The repubs have been after FDR's master plan for decades just trying to destroy it because a Democratic Pres came up with the ideal. The repubs Coolidge and Hoover took us down into a depression and FDR, a demo, saved us from their despicable, disgraceful abuses on the economy. Thank God we had FDR, now who will stand up to the plate.

:kick:

[struggle4progress]

7. The mainstream media finally acknowledges the obvious.

[stilpist]

10. It sure would be nice if they did.

Notice, however, that the Alter article is a "Web Exclusive." I believe that means it won't be in the printed magazine.

Better than nothing, but not enough.

- stil

[struggle4progress]

11. (Slap Forehead!) ... I've got to stop this wishful thinking. eom

[Skittles]

25. yup, after the election

f***ing WHORES

[coloradodem2005]

8. It's time to call a spade a spade.

[rodeodance]

12. he wants to dismantle public schools and now dsmantle Soc. Sec.

He does not have to worry whether he will have a roof over his head as he grows old--so he could not care less. He could just leave ss alone---but here is a mean streak in him and his minions to get the money for markets!!!

[deacon2]

13. Grover Norquist is their guru in residence

He has stated publicly that the intent is to "starve the beast (government) until we can drown it in the bath tub." Now that's "compassionate conservatism" ladies and gentlemen! A ruse dressed up in a pretty lie.

[kineneb]

14. let me get this straight

if we drown government that means there are no laws, because there won't be any civil servants (gov.) to enforce them. That means we then can go NeoCon hunting and no one will care!

Ja, I still have that ancestral streak of German anarchism.

[michaelwb]

15. Not quite

Because by that point, the armies, police, etc. will all be privatized - so they'll just close the government and have coporations rule us directly.

Eliminating the middle man and saving you money!

[yurbud]

19. private security cheaper for rich than fair taxes

you will more likely be the hunted.

[kineneb]

22. Ahh,but there are more of us than them

The slime can try to hide behind the walls of their gated communities, but how much do they pay the guards? And how loyal will the guards be if offered sufficent money? If everything is privitized, then bribery will return with a vengence. There will be no oversight and thus no law against the ancient tradition of "baksheesh."

[yurbud]

23. you storm the gates first. I'll wait until they run out of bullets

[cap]

16. why wasnt this written before the election...

the average person should have known this.

[mediaman007]

17. The average person probably only wants a...

job and a paycheck, a television and lower taxes.

The right is correct about one thing. American education isn't doing its job. Anyone with an education could see through this crap. Once they are done with education, they can do away with child labor laws. Those kids should be in the mines, not wasting away in classrooms.

[hannah]

18. The average person

Thinks bush is a cowboy from Texas, and are shocked to find he is a cheerleader from Connecticut. Although the average person doesn't even know that.!

[yurbud]

21. yep, get the five year olds back sweeping under the power looms

[applegrove]

20. Why they are so respectfull of FDR. Child molestor's too form special

'bonds' with the children they then lure away and kill.

***holes!!

[blindpig]

26. ungrateful bastards

The New Deal saved the rich from their own excess. Without FDR this country might have gone further to the left than the rich contemplate in their nightmares. The New Deal injected a little common(christian?) decency into a culture of Social Darwinism and the rich hate it. Fuck those scum, next time we fix it so that they are unable to regain their undeserved and abusive power. They are besotted fools who sow the seeds of their own destruction. Unfortunately they're liable to take us and the planet down with their own worthless asses.