SemiCharmedQuark
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 12:59 PM
Original message |
Everything Old Is New Again: Anti-New Deal 'Toons from the 1930s |
|
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 01:23 PM by SemiCharmedQuark
|
DJ13
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:01 PM
Response to Original message |
1. Most of those were anti FDR |
SemiCharmedQuark
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:03 PM
Response to Reply #1 |
2. That's kind of my point. The hostility towards government help for the population isn't new. |
|
These are the *same* talking points as today.
|
redqueen
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 02:06 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
12. And some are echoed by DUers, even. (nt) |
Uzybone
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:03 PM
Response to Original message |
3. Yes, the same lame charges |
|
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 01:04 PM by Uzybone
Too much govt spending during a recession/depression.
|
SemiCharmedQuark
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:05 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
4. Exactly. They haven't changed a bit. |
FSogol
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:08 PM
Response to Reply #4 |
6. Its all the Republicans have. |
|
Good ideas? No. Good intentions? No. Anything useful to add? Nope.
|
SemiCharmedQuark
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:30 PM
Response to Reply #6 |
9. You can even read Henry Ford calling the New Deal 'Class Warfare" |
cottonseed
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:07 PM
Response to Original message |
5. Amazing how little things change. Thanks for digging these up. |
|
A couple generations pass and the arguments are still the same.
|
Doctor_J
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:14 PM
Response to Original message |
7. News rags were right-wing shills then, |
|
are right-wing shills now. those who forget history...
|
Ganja Ninja
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:15 PM
Response to Original message |
8. Just shows the same people that owned the media back then ... |
|
still own the media today.
|
emulatorloo
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 01:55 PM
Response to Original message |
10. Recommended = THANK YOU n/t |
Jennicut
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 02:00 PM
Response to Original message |
11. Wow. The same lame arguments 80 years later. |
|
Deficits were so so worried about back then to. IF FDR had tried to balance the budget back then it would have been even more of a disaster. Duh.
|
SemiCharmedQuark
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 02:10 PM
Response to Reply #11 |
13. Strange, isn't it? My grandma was a kid when they were spouting these and now I'm old enough to |
|
have kids and they're *still* arguing the same things.
|
Jennicut
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 02:20 PM
Response to Reply #13 |
14. Me too. My grandma is 87 and I am 33. She loves Obama. |
Supersedeas
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 05:33 PM
Response to Original message |
15. Songboy Eric Cantor croning on about Tyranny with Britanny |
uponit7771
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 08:55 PM
Response to Original message |
16. WOW!! This blows me away, the GOP hasn't changed in 823p924u24.2 years!!! |
SemiCharmedQuark
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 09:05 PM
Response to Reply #16 |
17. And they probably won't change in the next 80 years either. |
goodgd_yall
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 09:09 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 09:11 PM by goodgd_yall
The same charges of "Socialism" were aimed at FDR's New Deal ideas too.
|
BlooInBloo
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Mar-25-09 09:11 PM
Response to Original message |
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Wed May 08th 2024, 01:49 PM
Response to Original message |