05-16-2015, 05:33 PM
(05-16-2015, 05:18 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Ummmm the rise in progressive politics. FDR put progressive policies on steroids.
Those same policies have made us a dependent public ..... Because we feel entitled to ..... Social security.... Etc.
The greatest generation of the world didn't count on anyone but themselves.... The baby boomers grew up embracing progressive polices. And my generation has continued them.... Thankfully the millennials are moving away from those policies .... And more towards freedom based
I'm not going to deny that there is some of that dependence in play here. However, it can't be denied that for some reason, it may even be progressive policies, upward mobility in the socioeconomic ladder is exponentially more difficult than it was a century, or even 50 years ago. That's a fact. What caused that, or what has resulted from this, is hard to pin down to one thing and it likely isn't anyway.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
