[336] in libertarians
FDR Memorial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Wed Oct 26 13:19:21 1994
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 13:14:24 -0400
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 17:15:00 -0700
From: larry.gibes@kr-bbs.com (Larry Gibes)
Subject: The FDR memorial
To: Libernet@Dartmouth.EDU
I think the Libertarian Party should issue a press release about
FDR. It should be something similar to the following:
> FDR'S GREATEST MONUMENT IS GARGANTUAN FEDERALISM
> In part from the Beacon Journal (Akron) (AK) - 20Oct94
>
> A monument to Franklin Delano Roosevelt is being constructed in
> Washington, D.C., almost five decades after his death in 1945.
>
> Appropriately, a large sum will be wasted: $52 million.
>
> But FDR already has a monument amidst us all: The mammoth,
> wasteful government he imposed.
>
...
[stuff about historian Kenneth S. Davis deleted]
...
>
> Before FDR, the central government wasted only 5 percent of the
> national economy. Today, it wastes 26 percent.
>
> Before FDR, the government usually balanced its budget. Since him,
> it rarely has.
>
> The federal debt approaches $5 trillion -- that's
> $5,000,000,000,000.
>
> Inflation has risen an incredible 1,000 percent (tenfold) since he
> turned the printing presses on full speed.
>
> Before FDR, the U.S.'s entire central regime wasted $3 billion a
> year.
>
> Now, most single "programs" amount to that or much more, and the
> federal budget stands at $1.5 trillion a year and rising -- a
> staggering 50,000 percent increase.
>
> He packed the Supreme Court with justices who shredded the Bill of
> Rights, especially the 9th and 10th Amendment checks on central
> government power. He imposed Social Security, which now is
> approaching bankruptcy.
>
> In turn, SS led to the Great Society programs of the 1960s,
> Medicare, Medicaid (both headed toward bankruptcy), and the "war on
> poverty" which has impoverished taxpayers by wasting $3 trillion
> without reducing the poverty rate.
>
> When big government was ousted in Moscow in 1991, statues to Lenin
> were toppled across the land.
>
> Instead of a marble memorial to FDR being built, his existing
> memorial -- big government -- should be toppled and smashed.
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