You might find a Justice or two who would say This is the end of this business of centralization, and I want you to go back and tell the president that we're not going to let this government centralize everything
The dominant theory at the time was that the Great Depression was caused by “underconsumptionism.”
The dominant theory at the time was that the Great Depression was caused by “underconsumptionism.”
Spend your money folks but spend it well. The libs will spend it if you don’t...…………………………………...
. As is often the case, power assumed by the government for one purpose is very easy to use for other, more nefarious purposes.
Now knowing the above, how do apply it?
At the same time, criticisms of the NRA grew, not the least from the African-American community, which correctly saw attempts to raise wages as a means of shutting black labor out of the market.
“It was much closer to the economic institutions of fascism then in place in Italy. As Shlaes and others have documented, Roosevelt’s advisers had been explicitly influenced by Mussolini, and he and Roosevelt had something of a mutual admiration society.”
I’ve always agreed with the view that the New Deal was the American version of the centralization and collectivism going on at the time in Italy, Germany, and Russia.
the classic story of Jewish heroism: a group of Jews under siege by the State demonstrating grace under pressure by standing up for their beliefs.
For one, it reminded me of the Founding Fathers. Our Founding Fathers had nothing left to lose. Nothing to protect as the British were in the process of destroying them. The guys that signed were targets BEFORE signing, the signing did not make them the targets.
The four guys above had nothing left to lose either.
FREEDOM IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE
So application? We aren’t going to fight until it becomes more real to us. As long as there is a chance that we can keep our stuff, we will be docile.
The article ends by referring to the Roosevelt Administration’s refusal to allow Jews fleeing the Nazis to find refuge in the US. The voyage of the “St. Louis” and the ultimate murder by the Nazis of some of its refugee passengers still haunts. In fact some of the current US asylum laws and the concept of a “well founded fear of persecution” were inspired by the voyage of the “St. Louis” and the fate of its passengers. ( that is not to say that the asylum laws and the concept of “well founded fear” has not and is not being currently abused.) However have a question to someone who may know. Why didn’t the “St. Louis” dock in the Dominican Republic which at the time was welcoming Jewsish refugees from Europe especially Germany?
“...of athletes like Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax”
But not very many, at least according to the movie Airplane.
“It wasn’t socialism, but it wasn’t capitalism either. It was much closer to the economic institutions of fascism then in place in Italy. As Shlaes and others have documented, Roosevelt’s advisers had been explicitly influenced by Mussolini, and he and Roosevelt had something of a mutual admiration society.”
Also similar to China today, and VERY SIMILAR to what Obama was pushing. Sure, most of corporate America would remain ‘private’, but they would always answer to Washington. And this is where today’s Democrat Party pretty much lies. However, AOC, Talib, and Omar want NO PART OF THAT, since that arrangement means still having super-rich people who are not achieving their wealth by being in government, particularly bankers and CEOs.
Hence the split in the Democrat Party. The new gals, and Bernie for that matter, are pushing for outright Communism, and are forcing the Democrat Party to go there.
And yet today 75 percent of Jews and 90 percent of blacks vote for the party that has done more to oppress them than any other entity in the country. It just boggles the mind.
Someone should inform the EPA of this decision, this news from the 1930s seems to have not have made it to them yet.
Specifically, Congress had no legitimate power to delegate what amounted to law-making power to the NRA.
Oooooookaaaaaayyyy...
Hmmm ... seems the ‘Rats and the ‘Rat media were racist and antisemitic back then. Ilhan Omar would have fit right in ...
The 1960s were when the Left really killed the Constitution. When William O. Douglas’ found “penumbras and emanations” from the Constitution, it meant the Constitution was whatever the present political fashion said it was.
“”The American Jews’ love for FDR is also something of a mystery when one considers his administration’s refusal to help Jews escape Nazi Germany as the Holocaust began to unfold. “”
That was the first thought that came to my mind when I read how much they loved FDR....glad we got to the end and the dichotomy of it. Very interesting post. Thanks.
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The story is told in The Forgotten Man by Amity Schlaes