An Assault on the New Deal

From the Progressive:

Among the pillars the New Deal rested on were Social Security and the right to organize. The Bush Administration is busy trying to knock both down.

President Bush has been vocal about his agenda to radically revamp Social Security and is attempting to do this by prophesizing doom for FDR's crowning legislative achievement unless it is completely reworked. The Chicken Little alarmism is an ideologically driven ploy to dismantle a key government program. Plus, it will benefit Republican constituencies on Wall Street.

But the Bush Administration is also moving surreptitiously against the right to organize, which FDR enshrined in the Wagner Act.

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Needless to say, the ideal America according to our President looks much more like the 19th century than the 20th. Get ready for shanty-town, USA.

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