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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (468703)	4/3/2009 4:51:50 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578940

> Which happened to coincide EXACTLY with when he started to ease up on his New Deal programs. You think easing up on the New Deal programs was just a decision made on a whim? FDR had to ease up, since there was no way he was going to keep Americans persistently dependent on New Deal entitlements: FDR believed, correctly, that you can't just stick people on the payroll for make-work jobs into perpetuity. The idea was that you could put them to work for a little while until the economy looked better then to ease up slowly on the spending and they would move off the government dole into private sector work. It didn't work that way, and it still doesn't. Once you put them to work in government jobs, that is their NEW JOB. They stay there. Isn't that what socialism is? The 2nd biggest employer in the world is the British health care system. (until the US health care system is socialized at which time the US health care system will be bigger than the Red Army and British health care will fall to a distant 3rd).