By the way, FDR also interned German Americans , just to a smaller scale, simply because the German-American community was much more easy for the government to penetrate and surveil than the Japanese-American community. You have to understand the capabilities of technology those days. We did not have an NSA that could listen in to your cell phone calls; infiltration was up-close and personal. Look at the surprise of Israelis who open-mindedly hired Gazans into their communities before Oct 7, only to find, to their horror, detailed maps of their homes in Hamas' hands.
While a discussion of FDR from the civil liberties perspective is well kept alive, more neglected is the harm of FDR's socialist policies on aggravating the Great Depression (see, e.g. Sowell), and of course we owe to FDR the gigantic government expansion one of whose fruits is that intergenerational Ponzi Scheme, Social Security, whose coming collapse in about three decades threatens to trigger the collapse our multi-trillion-dollar house of cards called the national debt (which, by the way, Obama doubled in just 8 peacetime years what took more than 200 years to accumulate, with a Civil War and two world wars).
A trillion is a big number. To give you an idea, a million seconds ago takes you back to two weeks ago. A billion seconds takes you back to when you were an infant more than thirty years ago. A trillion seconds ago and homo sapiens were just emerging. That's the size of our national debt, and FDR first took the nation in that direction.
And while the people of Eastern Europe celebrate Ronald Reagan, who freed them from the Communist Yoke, they do not speak of FDR, who gave their freedom away to Uncle Joe in Yalta.
By the way, FDR also interned German Americans , just to a smaller scale, simply because the German-American community was much more easy for the government to penetrate and surveil than the Japanese-American community. You have to understand the capabilities of technology those days. We did not have an NSA that could listen in to your cell phone calls; infiltration was up-close and personal. Look at the surprise of Israelis who open-mindedly hired Gazans into their communities before Oct 7, only to find, to their horror, detailed maps of their homes in Hamas' hands.
While a discussion of FDR from the civil liberties perspective is well kept alive, more neglected is the harm of FDR's socialist policies on aggravating the Great Depression (see, e.g. Sowell), and of course we owe to FDR the gigantic government expansion one of whose fruits is that intergenerational Ponzi Scheme, Social Security, whose coming collapse in about three decades threatens to trigger the collapse our multi-trillion-dollar house of cards called the national debt (which, by the way, Obama doubled in just 8 peacetime years what took more than 200 years to accumulate, with a Civil War and two world wars).
A trillion is a big number. To give you an idea, a million seconds ago takes you back to two weeks ago. A billion seconds takes you back to when you were an infant more than thirty years ago. A trillion seconds ago and homo sapiens were just emerging. That's the size of our national debt, and FDR first took the nation in that direction.
And while the people of Eastern Europe celebrate Ronald Reagan, who freed them from the Communist Yoke, they do not speak of FDR, who gave their freedom away to Uncle Joe in Yalta.
Thoughtful interview. Thank you.
This is the first FBT podcast I’ve listened to and after seeing there are over 80 of them, clearly I missed something.
These are excellent!
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Thank you!