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Friday, January 23, 2009

It's Time To Bash Those Liberals

All of the following "liberal" ideas were vehemently opposed by conservatives at the time the ideas were proposed and debated. The conservatives insisted that each of the ideas

• violated individual rights
• were unconstitutional
• would destroy the free enterprise system
• would lead to socialism
• would lead to communism
• would lead to fascism
  

The liberal notions:

• women's suffrage
• federal deposit insurance
• Social Security
• the investor protections of the Securities Acts of 1933 and `34
• expansion of the electrical grid to virtually everywhere in the USA
• unemployment insurance
• minimum wage
• child labor laws
• the 40-hour work week
• collective bargaining rights for workers
• the Civil Rights Act
• the Voting Rights Act
• federal fair housing laws
• Medicare
• federally sponsored guaranteed student loan programs
• Head Start
• subsidized school breakfasts and lunches for poor children

By the way, when you're passing out blame for all of those awful things, don't forget to blame the labor unions. The unions pushed very hard for most of those.

posted by Recovering Republican® © ™  # 12:01 AM

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