Obama's Anti-Populist Budget

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Anti-Populist-Budg-by-Stephen-Lendman-110216-631.html

Despite its flaws and failures during America's Great Depression, FDR's New Deal was remarkable for what it accomplished. It helped people, put millions back to work, reinvigorated the national spirit, built or renovated 700,000 miles of roads, 7,800 bridges, 45,000 schools, 2,500 hospitals, 13,000 parks and playgrounds, 1,000 airfields, and various other infrastructure, including much of Chicago's lakefront where this writer lives. It cut unemployment from 25% in May 1933 to 11% in 1937, before declaring victory too early and letting it spike before early war production revived economic growth and headed it lower.

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-- the landmark 1935 Social Security Act - to this day, the single most important federal program keeping millions of seniors from poverty or easing it for those already poor;

-- unemployment insurance in partnership with states;

-- two "Soak the Rich" revenue acts to make high earners pay more, another targeting tax cheats, and one taxing undistributed corporate profits;

More at the link --

He's a weaker version of Clinton.

Sad.

But the best we can do just now, apparently.

Bryant

I should say I think Hoover was generally a good man who's toolbox was exactly wrong for the crisis he faced. He tried to use what he had learned (and what had worked before) and failed, and lacked the will to move to something that would work. Similar to Obama who doensn't seem to understand how bad corporate America has become.

Bryant