And the numbers will increase dramatically with 10,000 Americans reaching 65 every day for the next 20 years. By 2030 one out of five Americans will be 65 or older, twice what it is now. And by 2030 there will be just two workers for every retiree down from the 42 workers for every retiree when FDR created the SS system. SS is the first mandate and Obamacare will close the circle with the last mandate putting the final nail in the coffin of this country.
Liberal historians like to annoint FDR as America's greatest President in the 20th century. The reality is that FDR sowed the seeds for the eventual destruction of the Republic.
“FDR created the US welfare state. “
You could argue that FDR “started” the welfare state, but there are thousands of politicians elected since 1945 (and the voters that voted them in) that deserve the lions share of creating the current welfare state.
The “welfare state” of the USA as it was in 1946 was rather innocuous - I myself would say.
We have had plenty of time since 1945 to repeal Social security, food stamps, medicare, Fannie Mae, student loans, the GCA of 1968, etc.
Blaming FDR for what Carter, Truman, Johnson, Pelosi, Teddy Kennedy, Gore, Clinton, and others did since 1945 is blaming the wrong person for what is destroying the country.