re: #151 subsailor68

I know I sound like a broken record sometimes when I keep recommending:

“The Forgotten Man” Amity Schlaes
“New Deal or Raw Deal” Burton Fulsom Jr.

But perhaps one way to address the current economy, budget proposal, and the other “plans” being put forward would be to take specific examples of what Roosevelt did, and what happened as a result, and do a side-by-side comparison to current proposals. Focus on the idea of “we’ve tried this before, and this is what happened then. This (fill in the blank) will take us down the same road.”

At least that way, we could move away from personalizing the issue, and at the same time provide food for thought for those folks finally realizing that we may not be going in the right direction.

No - do go on saying this.
I heartily second your advice on reading these books. What those two describe is by no means main-stream knowledge.

One thing I found jaw-droppingly amazing is that right after FDR’s death, a whole LLL academic industry sprang up, elevating him and making him into the icon he now is.
There was no criticism! And if people wanted to get on in academia, they knew they had to toe that line …

So - read these books, and use that information - because it gives chapter and verse on what was tried, how it didn’t work and why - and you can get an idea of what PB0 still has in store for you!