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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2371125" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>Roosevelt did not institute Social Security and public works projects, create 12 million jobs or give legal status to labor unions because he and other oligarchs cared about the working class. They enacted socialist reforms because—and we know this from Roosevelt’s private correspondence—they feared revolt or, in Roosevelt’s precise word, “revolution.” They established the New Deal programs in order to save capitalism, which Roosevelt later said was his greatest achievement. They realized they would have to give up some of their money; it was that or risk losing all of their money. And they allowed the New Deal to be born because they felt the growing pressure of radical movements such as those of the socialists and communists. <strong>Politics is a game of fear.</strong> And if you lose the capacity to make the power elites afraid, you become their plaything. This, in the simplest terms, is what has happened to us. - chris hedges</p><p></p><p>look at the population back when FDR was in office. it was roughly 130 million. so he hired 10% of the population when the private sector couldn't.</p><p></p><p>the suffering caused by unemployment in our last great recession was unnecessary. the government if it wasnt so beholden to corporate power, could have easily hired ALOT of ppl to fix infrastructure and start the green economy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2371125, member: 56035"] Roosevelt did not institute Social Security and public works projects, create 12 million jobs or give legal status to labor unions because he and other oligarchs cared about the working class. They enacted socialist reforms because—and we know this from Roosevelt’s private correspondence—they feared revolt or, in Roosevelt’s precise word, “revolution.” They established the New Deal programs in order to save capitalism, which Roosevelt later said was his greatest achievement. They realized they would have to give up some of their money; it was that or risk losing all of their money. And they allowed the New Deal to be born because they felt the growing pressure of radical movements such as those of the socialists and communists. [B]Politics is a game of fear.[/B] And if you lose the capacity to make the power elites afraid, you become their plaything. This, in the simplest terms, is what has happened to us. - chris hedges look at the population back when FDR was in office. it was roughly 130 million. so he hired 10% of the population when the private sector couldn't. the suffering caused by unemployment in our last great recession was unnecessary. the government if it wasnt so beholden to corporate power, could have easily hired ALOT of ppl to fix infrastructure and start the green economy. [/QUOTE]
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