FDR’s warning about Republicans of then and now

5 Comments

1. expdoc says:

   October 14, 2012 at 1:39 pm

   Was FDR the inventor of the liberal scare tactic?

   I kind of expected him to say that Republicans really just wanted to wheel his chair off a cliff.
2. expdoc says:

   October 14, 2012 at 1:46 pm

   Here’s another FDR warning. Why won’t liberals listen?

   http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/18/the-first-blow-against-public-employees/fdr-warned-us-about-public-sector-unions

   It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”

   That wasn’t Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul, or Ronald Reagan talking. That was George Meany — the former president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O — in 1955. Government unions are unremarkable today, but the labor movement once thought the idea absurd.

   Public sector unions insist on laws that serve their interests — at the expense of the common good. The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”
3. expdoc says:

   October 14, 2012 at 1:48 pm

   Oh look! A You-Tube video!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycy1aNZBzc
4. Pat Cunningham says:

   October 14, 2012 at 4:10 pm

   doc: Congratulations on wheelchair remark. Very tasteful and sensitive.
5. expdoc says:

   October 14, 2012 at 4:40 pm

   That’s exactly what I think every time I see or hear a liberal using it.