Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Revolution began with his inaugural address, which left no doubt about his intentions to seize the moment and harness it to his own purposes. Best remembered for its patently false line that "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," its Revolutionary charter also called for more extraordinary emergency governmental powers which turned out to be even more fear piled up on top of fear itself!
SAY NO TO PRICE CONTROLS!
The view that FDR saved us from the Depression is indefensible; Roosevelt's policies prolonged and deepened it. There's no doubt that Roosevelt changed the character of the American government--for the worse. Many of the reforms of the 1930s remain embedded in policy today: acreage allotments, price supports and marketing controls in agriculture, extensive regulation of private securities, federal intrusion into union-management relations, government lending and insurance activities, the minimum wage, national unemployment insurance, Social Security and welfare payments, production and sale of electrical power by the federal government, fiat money--the list goes on.
The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of June 1933 was one of the famed “first 100 Days” laws enacted in FDR’s first term to deal with the Great Depression. It was enacted to promote economic recovery by ending wage and price deflation and restoring competition. Among other things, the act authorized the President to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery. It ended in more United States economic disaster, overturned by the Supreme Court and dropped by FDR going into his second term. Obama, did you study U.S. History?
Tell your Senators - NO PRICE & WAGE CONTROLS!
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