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The Nation: Richard Kreitner- ‘FDR Signs The Emergency Act, Launching The New Deal: March 9, 1933’

Source:The Nation– 1930s America. “Today in 1933 the newly inaugurated President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Emergency Banking Act, officially launching the New Deal. The act allowed the Federal Reserve to guarantee the assets of banks that Roosevelt had ordered closed … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: ‘Harry Browne’s Social Security Solution’

Source:Liberty Pen– 2000 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Harry Browne. You can also see this post at FreeState Now, on Blogger. “From the Great Libertarian Offer (2000), Libertarian presidential candidate Harry Browne offers an innovative fix to the Social Security crisis. Liberty Pen” … Continue reading

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The American Mind: Charles Kesler Interviewing William Voegeli: Ending The Welfare State

. This blog has already laid out why it is against the negative income tax. Handing people who up to this point at least haven’t been responsible with their lives in too many cases to the point not they are … Continue reading

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The American Prospect: Julian E. Zelizer- When Progressives Were Organized

Source:The American Prospect– “Progressives seeking a model for an effective Congress could learn from the nearly forgotten history of the Democratic Study Group.” From the American Prospect. “When Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 1994 for the … Continue reading

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The National Memo: Froma Harrop: Progressives Don’t Need Washington All That Much

The New Democrat The National Memo: Opinion: Froma Harrop: Progressives Don’t Need Washington All That Much There’s a tiny little state in New England right next door of New Hampshire which is happens to be the Libertarian Republic of New … Continue reading

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Democracy Journal: Opinion: Mike Konczal: “The Voluntarism Myth”: The Advantages of the Public/Private Social Insurance System

Private Charity Democracy Journal: Opinion: Mike Konczal: The Voluntarism Fantasy I was waiting to read from Mike Konczal in his piece some call for nationalizing private charity and completely nationalizing private charity all together and giving the Federal Government complete … Continue reading

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Economist’s View: Daniel Little: Economic Institution’s & Democratic Equality

Source:The New Democrat The Opportunity Society that New Democrats started talking about in the late 1980s and early 1990s was also designed to counter the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s. That made government especially big centralized government look like … Continue reading

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American Enterprise: Nicholas Eberstadt: The Government vs. The American Character

Source:The New Democrat  I agree with Nicholas Eberstadt on the growth of the entitlement state in America. . We use to be a society in which you took care of yourself as much as you could and when you couldn’t, … Continue reading

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The Heartland Institute: Richard Ebeling- The Free Market vs. The Interventionist State

Source:The New Democrat There is no pure free market economy in the world today.  I use the term private market instead of free market and private enterprise instead of free enterprise.  Any type of economy that’s subjected to taxes and … Continue reading

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Crooks & Liars: Joshua Holland: Outrage Over ObamaCare is Nothing Compared With FDR’s New Deal

Source:The New Democrat  In the 1920s and 30s, the U.S. economy was a pretty freewheeling affair. Taxes were low and regulation of the economy was minimal.  Libertarians were as close to utopia as they had ever been.  When the first … Continue reading

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