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Don't mention that they are Liberal Accomplishments.
Do you agree with any of the following?
Liberal Accomplishments
Social Security;
Medicare-Medicaid;
PeaceCorps;
unemployment insurance;
welfare (for the poor andcorporate);
civil rights;
student grant and loan programs;
safety laws (OSHA);
environmental laws;
prevailing wagelaws;
right to collective bargaining (which brought about
paid medical insurance, paid vacations, pensions, etc.);
workers' compensation;
Marshall Plan;
flood-disasterinsurance;
School Lunch Program;
women's rights.
Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage, instituted child labor laws, and set up time-and-a-half pay for over a 40-hour week.
FHA-HUD with its public housing, urban renewal and 44 million residential homes (before WWII almost 70 percent of our nation were renters; by the 1970s this had been reversed).
farm-conservation subsidies -- USDA programs,
Farmers Home Administration (the bankers didn't want to make rural loans),
small flood-control lakes (more than 3,000 in Oklahoma alone), rural water districts, rural electricity (REA).
The GI Bill was passed, which the Republicans at the time bitterly opposed.
FDIC and FSLIC, insuring their deposits, and saved Wall Street with the establishment of the Securities Exchange Commission.
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