--- JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If only FDR could be held accountable for Social > Security - a policy that > has done far mroe long-term damage to this country > than Bush's > comparatively measly tax cuts will ever do. > > JDG
Yes, but in the long term, we're all dead. In the short and medium term, right up to the present day, Social Security did an enormous amount of good. It is, at the least, unreasonable to blame FDR for reforms that may well have saved capitalism and democracy itself just because later politicians lack the courage to do something about them. Or, to parse the blame out more precisely, in the same way that _The West Wing_, of all places, did, because Democrats think using Social Security as a weapon to win re-election is more important than saving it, and Republicans don't have the balls to take them on on the issue because they think (quite possibly correctly) that if they did they'd lose. There's a lot of blame to spread around in that mess. It doesn't seem to me that much of it accrues to FDR. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
