Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)... Speaks of FDR and The New Deal... oh, and Ronald Reagan...
"These programs weakened us as a people. You see, almost forever, it was institutions in society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. If someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. If a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. You saved for your retirement and your future because you had to. We took these things upon ourselves in our communities, our families, and our homes, and our churches and our synagogues. But all that changed when the government began to assume those responsibilities. All of a sudden, for an increasing number of people in our nation, it was no longer necessary to worry about saving for security because that was the government's job.
For those who met misfortune, that wasn't our job to take care of them. That was the government's job. And as government crowded out the institutions in our society that did these things traditionally, it weakened our people..."
This is so wrong on its face that Rubio needs to be slapped... double slapped, Jesus-style on both cheeks...
The New Deal saved America, created a country that was willing to defend itself... in the midst of a Depression... against Germany and Japan during World War Two. Why did we fight? FDR and The New Deal gave us something to fight for. America became a great nation, for a short time during the 20th Century because Corporatism was on its knees and The New Deal created the greatest, most fair and powerful and rich nation in the world... and most, if not all, of us shared in that... until the Republican Party took power again and started to tear us down. The rising tide was never allowed to raise all boats.
The Republican Party was able to do to America what neither The Empire of Japan or Hitler could do.
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