It's about killing off the New Deal

It's about killing off the New Deal



North Dakota columnist gets to the real issue:

"Social Security, after all, is the crown jewel of the New Deal. Hammer cracks in the crown jewel, and it's open season on every other federal program that is rooted in FDR's belief that government should help all Americans, regardless of their social or economic status.



Federal regulatory and support agencies we take for granted today were born of the New Deal. There are those of the Coolidge-Hoover-Bush persuasion who would scrap them all, beginning with Social Security. It won't happen, of course, at least in our lifetimes. But Americans should understand that the Social Security "reform" debate is a skirmish in a long-standing philosophical war about the shape, scope and purpose of the federal government. President Bush seems to believe he can go down in history as the general who presided over the beginning of the end of the ideas and ideals of FDR's New Deal."

"Coolidge-Hoover-Bush persuasion." LOVE that line.



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