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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

"John Boehner, the Republican House leader who will become Speaker if Democrats lose control of the House in the upcoming midterms, recently offered his solution to the current economic crisis: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmer, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. People will work harder, lead a more moral life.”
Actually, those weren’t Boehner’s words. They were uttered by Herbert Hoover’s treasury secretary, millionaire industrialist Andrew Mellon, after the Great Crash of 1929.

But they might as well have been Boehner’s because Hoover’s and Mellon’s means of purging the rottenness was by doing exactly what Boehner and his colleagues are now calling for: shrink government, cut the federal deficit, reduce the national debt, and balance the budget.

And we all know what happened after 1929, at least until FDR reversed course.

Boehner and other Republicans would even like to roll back the New Deal and get rid of Barack Obama’s smaller deal health-care law.

The issue isn’t just economic. We’re back to tough love. The basic idea is force people to live with the consequences of whatever happens to them.

In the late 19th century it was called Social Darwinism. Only the fittest should survive, and any effort to save the less fit will undermine the moral fiber of society."
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich-s-Blog/2010/0928/Republican-tough-love-economics-Social-Darwinism-for-the-21st-century

Reich, as usual, nails it. The rethugs really do not give a shit about anyone except the white investment class. The older I get, the more I despise fucks like Boner.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

"John Boehner, the Republican House leader who will become Speaker if Democrats lose control of the House in the upcoming midterms, recently offered his solution to the current economic crisis: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmer, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. People will work harder, lead a more moral life.”
Actually, those weren’t Boehner’s words. They were uttered by Herbert Hoover’s treasury secretary, millionaire industrialist Andrew Mellon, after the Great Crash of 1929.

But they might as well have been Boehner’s because Hoover’s and Mellon’s means of purging the rottenness was by doing exactly what Boehner and his colleagues are now calling for: shrink government, cut the federal deficit, reduce the national debt, and balance the budget.

And we all know what happened after 1929, at least until FDR reversed course.

Boehner and other Republicans would even like to roll back the New Deal and get rid of Barack Obama’s smaller deal health-care law.

The issue isn’t just economic. We’re back to tough love. The basic idea is force people to live with the consequences of whatever happens to them.

In the late 19th century it was called Social Darwinism. Only the fittest should survive, and any effort to save the less fit will undermine the moral fiber of society."
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich-s-Blog/2010/0928/Republican-tough-love-economics-Social-Darwinism-for-the-21st-century

Reich, as usual, nails it. The rethugs really do not give a shit about anyone except the white investment class. The older I get, the more I despise fucks like Boner.

Actually, Reich didn't nail anything other than to trot out the same old liberal accusations and the falsehood that F. D. R. "saved" the country.  For a clearer view of what actually happened during F. D. R.s time, try giving Amity Shlaes book "The Forgotten Man" more than a cursory glance.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

The republican party should have renamed itself the capitalist party a long time ago. It is they who are acting on behalf of corporate America and the investor class. They believe society's salvation is found in worshiping at the alter of profits.

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster
Actually, those weren’t Boehner’s words. They were uttered by Herbert Hoover’s treasury secretary, millionaire industrialist Andrew Mellon, after the Great Crash of 1929.