Originally posted by sh76
Okay, since my wife won't drive in a snowstorm I had to drive the kiddies to school today. Of course, there are always a few morons out there who think it's unsafe to drive more than 5 MPH when it's snowing, so traffic slows to a crawl. So, I ended up being in the car for 90 minutes this morning between dropping off the kids and driving to work.
So, as you c s comparing Obama to FDR something that Glenn Beck believes will inspire hatred of Obama?
As I have told you in the past, you need to read Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Lavine. He writes, "In the 1930's during the Great Depression, the Statists successfully launched a counterrevolution that radically and fundamentally altered the nature of American society. FDR and an overwhelmingly Democratic congress through an array of federal projects, entitlements, taxes, and regulations known as the New Deal breached the Constitutions firewalls. At first the Supreme Court fought back, striking down New Deal programs as exceeding the limits of federal constitutional authority, violating state soverignty, and trampling on private property rights. But rather than seek an expansion of federal power through the amendment process, which would likely have blunted Roosevelt's ambitions, Roosevelt threatened the very makeup of the Court by proposing to pack it with smpathetic justices who would go along with his counterrevolution. Although Roosevelt's plan failed, the justices had been effectively intimidated.j And new justices, who shared Roosevelt's statism, began replacing older justices on the Court. It was not long before the Court became little more than a rubber stamp for Roosevelt's policies. The federal government began passing laws and creating administrative agencies at a dizzying pace, increasing its control over economic activity, and, hence, individual liberty. It used taxation not merely to fund contstitutionally legitimate governmental activities, but also to redistribute wealth, finance welfare programs, and establish pension and unemployment programs. Roosevelt used his new power to expand political alliances and create electoral constituencies--unions, farmers, senior citizens, and ethnic groups. From this era forward, the Democratic party and the federal government would become inextricably intertwined, and the Democratic Party would become as dependent on federal power for its sustenance as the governmental depedence it would create. Ironically, industrial expansion resulting from WW2 eventually ended the Great Depression, not the New Deal. Indeed, the enormous tax and regulatory burden imposed on the private sector by the New Deal prolonged the economic recovery. The significance of the New Deal is not in any one program, but in its sweeping break from our founding principles and constitutional limitations. Roosevelt himself broke with the two term presidental-term started by George Washington by runnig for four terms. His legacy includes a federal government that has become a massive, unaccountable conglomerate. It is the nation's largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contract, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor."
"There was a time when FDR, the Statist's favorite president, was an Originalist who respected the Constitution's wise formulations and purpose. In 1930, as governor of New York, he delivered a speech condemning "the doctrine of regulation by "master minds" in whose judgement and will all the people may gladly and quietly acquiesce....Were it possible to find "master minds" to unselfish, so willing to decide unhesitatingly against their own personal interests or private prejudices, men almost god-like in their ability to hold the scales of Justice with an even hand, such a government might be to the interest of the country, but there are none such on our political horizen, and we cannot expect a complete reversal of all the teachings of history. He added, "Now, to bring about government by oligarchy masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our National Government." But alas, Roosevelt went on to become the very "master mind" he had denounced earlier in his political career. In his 1944 State of the Union adress to Congress, Roosevelt declared, "This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable rights--among them the right of free speech, free press etc. They were our rights to life and liberty. But for Roosevelt, these rights were no longer enough. He went on to propose a second bill of rights based upon "security and prosperity". The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or forms of mines of the Nation; to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living, of every business, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad; of every family to a decent home; to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health; to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment; to a good education.
This is tyranny in disguise. These are not rights. They are the Statist's false promises of utopianism, which the Statist uses to justify all trespasses on the individual's property. Liberty and private property go hand in hand. By dominating one the Statist dominates both, for if the individual cannot keep or dispose of the value he creates by his own intellectual and/or physical labor, he exists to serve the state.. The Second Bill of Rights and its legal and policy progeny require the individual to surrender control of his fate to the government."
The FDR legacy among the American right
28 Jan '10 17:29
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