Failures of Roosevelt's "Old Socialist Deal" Programs


When President Roosevelt took office in 1933, he feverishly imposed socialist program after socialist program upon Americans.  He imposed programs that were called FDR's "alphabet soup" as well as the "New Deal." He exacerbated the government-caused depression (making it "great" in scope and length). Worse, Roosevelt permanently crippled the country and his damage continues to spread.   http://rexcurry.net/book11pledge-ch2a1a.html

Pledge of Allegiance to the flag The USA's Pledge of Allegiance (& the military salute) was the origin of Adolf Hitler's "Nazi" salute under the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html

The swastika was used by the military and by socialists in the USA and in the USSR, before it was used by the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP).
http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
The swastika, although an ancient symbol, was also used to represent "S" letters joined for "socialism" under the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis), similar to the alphabetical symbolism for the SS Division, the SA, the NSV, and the VW logo (the letters "V" and "W" joined for "Volkswagen"). http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a2a1.html
Francis Bellamy & Edward Bellamy touted National Socialism and the police state in the USA decades before their dogma was exported to Germany. They influenced the NSDAP, its dogma, symbols and rituals. http://rexcurry.net/police-state.html

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE & NAZISM & Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). The straight arm salute was an American greeting before it was a German greeting. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was influenced by Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and their dogma of National Socialism and Military Socialism, years before the existence of the National Socialists German Workers Party. See the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

PROGRAM: SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA DESCRIPTION: SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA RE: OUTCOME TRUE OUTCOME
Social Security Act
This act established a system that provided old-age pensions for workers, survivors benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, and aid for defendant mothers and children, the blind and physically disabled.
Although the original SSA did not cover farm and domestic workers, it did help millions of Americans feel more secure.
The original SSA did not originally cover farm and domestic workers. It impoverished millions of Americans and made them feel less secure.  The unconstitutional theft program continues to impoverish even more today. It is the cornerstone of the USA's growing police state. Even American infants are numbered at birth and everyone is tracked from cradle to grave. http://rexcurry.net/SSNall.html  and  http://rexcurry.net/ssnunconstitutional.html
Emergency Banking Act/Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) On March 6, 1933 he shut down all of the banks in the nation and forced Congress to pass the Emergency Banking Act which gave the government police state powers over all banks. Then he created more socialism with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to force taxpayers to bail out banks, euphemistically described "insure deposits up to $5000."
These measures reestablished American faith in banks. Americans were no longer scared that they would lose all of their savings in a bank failure. Government inspectors found that most banks were healthy, and two-thirds were allowed to open soon after. After reopening, deposits had exceeded withdrawals. This was more socialism piled on top of the mess created after the 1913 Federal Reserve Act was imposed, which expanded the government's ability to print, counterfeit and inflate its paper money, leading to more depressions created by the government, including the Great Depression in 1929. http://rexcurry.net/money.html These measures lessened American faith in government money.  Government inspectors found that most banks were healthy, but the socialism stayed, of course. Adding insult to injury, FDR confiscated every American’s gold.   That further expanded the government’s ability to counterfeit and inflate its worthless paper money. http://rexcurry.net/moneyart.html It is sad to note that the USA's police state did not allow private ownership of gold until 1973. It was illegal for Americans to buy and own gold American coins, but they could enjoy that freedom by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Switzerland, though it was illegal for them to bring those American coins back into the U.S.



Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The SEC was created by section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (now codified as 15 U.S.C. § 78d and commonly referred to as the 1934 Act). In addition to the 1934 Act that created it, the SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other statutes.

The SEC was more socialism piled on top of various other controls/laws that were imposed. By its very existence the SEC had an effect upon the public that was similar to other bureaucracies that claimed to protect the public (compare social security): it duped the public into believing that it was protected (in a way that is similar to how social security dupes Americans into not investing for retirement). Thus the SEC led to the biggest private ponzi scheme of all time under Madoff in 2008 (the SEC had even looked at Madoff's work and found no problem).  Of course, Madoff's ponzi scheme was nothing compared to social security. If Madoff had been FDR then Madoff would have been hailed as a great innovator and statesman. It is a wonder why Madoff's company was not "bailed out" or declared to be part of the social security system.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
This environmental program put 2.5 million unmarried men to work maintaining and restoring forests, beaches, and parks. Workers earned only $1 a day but received free board and job training. From 1934 to 1937, this program funded similar programs for 8,500 women.
The CCC taught the men and women of America how to live independently, thus, increasing their self esteem.
The CCC taught the men and women of America how to live dependently on the government in military-style camps, ala Bellamy "military socialism" thus, decreasing their self esteem.  http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter5a1.html
Agricultural Adjustment Act 1934
The AAA tried to raise farm prices. It used proceeds from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals. Lower production would, in turn, increase prices.
The AAA tried to raise farm prices. It used proceeds from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals. The socialist reasoning was that lower production would, in turn, increase prices.
Socialized American Agriculture, causing massive problems as it did in similar programs under the Union of Soviet Sovialist Republics, The Peoples' Republic of China and under the National Socialist German Workers Party.  http://rexcurry.net/usda.html  Farmers killed off certain animals and crops as they were told to by the AAA. Many could not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving. Declared unconstitutional later on.
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
This purported to ban child labor and set a minimum wage.
This law was a long awaited triumph for the progressive-era social reformers.
A fan writes: I own a business, it's MINE, but along comes a government and with threat of DEATH tries to FORCE me to pay someone else a wage that I as the owner am NOT guaranteed.
BULLSHIT and 3's 8 when the min wage went up I FIRED 4 of my 6 employees, the remaining two have seen their checks DECREASE why? because I cut overtime AND I put them on a 35 hour based salary., How's the work getting done you ask? I require them to work HARDER, and I have to do more (which sux).
Civil Works Administration (CWA) This public work program gave the unemployed jobs building or repairing roads, parks, airports, etc. The CWA provided a psychological and physical boost to its 4 million workers.
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 This act ended the sale of tribal lands and restored ownership of unallocated lands to Native American groups. The outcome was obviously positive for the Native Americans.
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of June 1933 The decline in the industrial prices in 1930s caused business failures and unemployment. The NIRA was formed in order to boost the declining prices, helping businesses and workers. The NIRA also allowed trade associations in many industries to write codes regulating wages, working conditions, production, and prices. It also set a minimum wage. The codes stopped the tailspin of prices for a short time, but soon, when higher wages went into effect, prices rose too. Thus, consumers stopped buying. The continuous cycle of overproduction and underconsumption put businesses back into a slump. Some businesses felt that the codes were too complicated and the NRA was too rigid. Declared unconstitutional later on.
Public Works Association (PWA) The PWA launched projects such as the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. One of the best parts of the NIRA.
Federal Securities Act of May 1993/ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) This act required full disclosure of information on stocks being sold. The SEC regulated the stock market. Congress also gave the Federal Reserve Board the power to regulate the purchase of stock on margin. Not pleasing for businesses. The SEC was more socialism piled on top of various other controls/laws that were imposed. By its very existence the SEC had an effect upon the public that was similar to other bureaucracies that claimed to protect the public (compare social security): it duped the public into believing that it was protected (in a way that is similar to how social security dupes Americans into not investing for retirement). Thus the SEC led to the biggest private ponzi scheme (now known as a "Madoff scheme) of all time under Madoff in 2008 (the SEC had even looked at Madoff's work and found no problem).  Of course, Madoff's ponzi scheme was nothing compared to social security. If Madoff had been FDR then Madoff would have been hailed as a great innovator and statesman. It is a wonder why Madoff's company was not "bailed out" or declared to be part of the social security system.
Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) / Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA) In order to help people keep their houses, the HOLC refinanced mortgages of middle-income home owners. The AAA tried to raise farm prices. It used proceeds from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals. Lower production would, in turn, increase prices. Farmers killed off certain animals and crops as they were told to by the AAA. Many could not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving. Declared unconstitutional later on. The dogma behind the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) was the same dogma behind government laws and programs that tricked Americans into the massive loans/debt/credit that led to the real estate decline, crash and bankruptcies of 2006-9.
 
The Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA) shares blame for socializing American Agriculture, causing massive problems as it did in similar programs under the Union of Soviet Sovialist Republics, The Peoples' Republic of China and under the National Socialist German Workers Party.  http://rexcurry.net/usda.html  Farmers killed off certain animals and crops as they were told to by the AAA. Many could not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving. Declared unconstitutional later on.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (May 1993) The TVA helped farmers and created jobs in one of America s least modernized areas. Reactivating a hydroelectric power plant provided cheap electric power, flood control, and recreational opportunities to the entire Tennessee River valley.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1935-1943 This agency provided work for 8 million Americans. The WPA constructed or repaired schools, hospitals, airfields, etc. Decreased unemployment. Massively extended the period of real unemployment by creating fake government jobs in a method eerily similar to that (and coinciding with that) which was happening under notorious socialist systems such as that under the National Socialist German Workers Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Farm Security Administration (FSA) The FSA loaned more than $1 billion to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers.

National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) It legalized practices allowed only unevenly in the past, such as closed shops in which only union members can work and collective bargain. The act also set up the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to enforce its provisions

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)  Led by Harry Hopkins, a former social worker, this agency sent funds to depleting local relief agencies. Within two hours, $5 million were given out. Mr. Hopkins believed that men should be put to work and not be given charity. His program also funded public work programs.  Revitalized many deteriorating relief programs.

War Production Board





Office of War Information (OWI) & Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP)




Office of War Information (OWI) by executive order in June 1942 in order to seize even more control than FDR had from the half-dozen overlapping propaganda agencies that had operated before the war. Infusing movies with propaganda fell to the OWI’s Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP).

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation




Herbert Hoover did this as part of his national socialist program that paved the way for FDR's additional expansion of the USA's growing police state.

Federal Home Loan  Bank Act




Herbert Hoover did this as part of his national socialist program that paved the way for FDR.

52 percent increase in government spending





Herbert Hoover did this as part of his national socialist program that showed the way for FDR's national socialist scams.

Third-largest budget deficit then in U.S. history





Herbert Hoover did this as part of his hyper interventionist national socialist program that preceded FDR's national socialist scams.

Hoover Dam




Another "make-work" project of Herbert Hoover of the type that was copy-catted by FDR.


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The photograph above shows members of the fifth grade at "Chcremoya [sic] public school of Hollywood" ( Cheremoya public school ), as they pledge allegiance to the flag during the War Production Board's (WPB) presentation, entitled "Three Thirds of the Nation" at Hollywood's Radio City on May 27, 1942 (Bransby, David, photographer).

The hand-over-the-heart in the Pledge of Allegiance is supposed to be performed with the right hand in a military salute over the heart. That news is supported by photographic evidence in recent research. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html#THE_TRUE_SALUTE

See the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge, would have opposed the change to the hand-over-the-heart (the hand placed flat against the chest).  http://rexcurry.net/pledge-of-allegiance-images.html

Today the military salute at the chest complies with "the right hand over the heart" dictated under the Flag Code that Congress passed. The chest-military salute may have been the original intent of people who supported "the right hand over the heart" legislation.

A photograph of the military salute at the chest is at http://rexcurry.net/military-salute-socialism-pledge-allegiance.jpg

Franklin Delano Roosevelt pledged this way http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg Great Depression
FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Looking Forward
Herbert Hoover http://rexcurry.net/edward%20bellamy.jpg Roosevelt, Franklin Delano FDR, this was the pledge when he grew up

A student wrote to say that he gave the early American salute during the Pledge of Allegiance and screamed "dies ist scheissdreck! (Scheißdreck)"
The government's Borat-style indoctrination program.
The current color-coded alert level for socialism: RED (severe).
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was so impressed by Bellamy's book "Looking Backward" that Roosevelt wrote "Looking Forward" (1933) on Roosevelt's way to impose Bellamy's national socialism in America. http://rexcurry.net/socialism-roosevelt.html

A picture of Roosevelt's book is here  http://rexcurry.net/fdr-franklin-delano-roosevelt-looking-forward.jpg

Roosevelt even attempted to create his own Bellamy-style utopian fantasies such as camps and subsistence farming programs. http://rexcurry.net/book11pledge-ch2a1a.html

In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed the Civilian Conservation Corps and created camps consistent with the dogma of military socialism touted by Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy. Hitler at first remarked admiringly about Roosevelt’s “dynamic” leadership. http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter5a1.html

Arthurdale, WV, was first known as “The Reedsville Project” by the government employees who were sent there to establish the first New Deal community under the first of three Franklin Delano Roosevelt administrations.

Prior to FDR’s election in 1933, Eleanor became interested in the work of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization which had begun a child feeding program in Pennsylvania and West Virginia at President Hoover’s request. Clarence Pickett, secretary of the AFSC, was invited to Hyde Park, NY, FDR’s home, to discuss the AFSC’s efforts at vocational reeducation and subsistence living projects. FDR, after his 1933 inauguration, promoted a bevy of bills to address the problems of the Depression. One of these was a bill to establish a subsistence homestead fund. This bill interested First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and she, along with Clarence Pickett, who by then had been appointed chief of the Stranded Mining and Industrial Populations Section of the Department of the Interior, became involved with The Reedsville Project.

The Reedsville Project, later named Arthurdale after Richard Arthur, from whom the land was purchased, was begun in 1934 as a homestead community. Land was purchased, residents were selected, homes were constructed, more residents were selected, more homes constructed… until there were 165 homes and several community buildings including a school complex, built on approximately 1200 acres in rural Preston County, WV. Today, most of the community buildings still stand and most are part of the New Deal Homestead Museum.

Many of the new residents were displaced miners from the Scott’s Run area near Morgantown, WV, but some moved here from other areas of Preston County and WV. Some of the homes housed the government employees who were assigned jobs here such as teachers, physicians, surveyors, engineers, secretaries, etc.

The homesteaders themselves were responsible for paying rent, working and farming their allotted acreage, and some were employed to build new homes and the administration building, forge, gas station, cooperative store, craft shop, center hall, and school buildings. Some found work in the schools, post office, barber shop, and the Mountaineer Craftsman Association. Some were hired to work in the numerous business ventures which were enticed to the area.

The federal government liquidated its holdings in Arthurdale in 1947; all homes and community buildings were sold to private ownership.

Another example of a similar government program is in Florida. In 1935, the WPA launched the $1.5 million Cherry Lake Rehabilitation Project. Officials selected 500 families residing in Tampa, Jacksonville, and Miami, and moved them to a 15,000-acre communal tract they called Cherry Lake Farms.

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Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were remarkably similar to the socialist programs under German National Socialism and Hitler as well as those under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Stalin, and under Benito Mussolini. (See Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939 by Wolfgang Schivelbusch). Note also the omnipresent banners, flags and pledges enlisting citizens as loyal followers of the state.

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THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE & NAZISM: Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR. The straight arm salute was an American Greeting before it was the German Greeting. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was influenced by Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and their dogma of National Socialism and military socialism, years before the existence of the National Socialists German Workers Party. http://rexcurry.net/book11pledge-ch2a1a.html

CCC - CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORP, CCCP USSR SSSR, SOCIALISM ...
In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said "I propose to create a Civilian ...
Hitler also at first remarked admiringly about Roosevelt’s “dynamic” leadership, ...
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NAZISM: Made in the USA. EDWARD BELLAMY AUTHOR OF "LOOKING ...
The USA’s worst president, the socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, imposed national socialism in the U.S., along with socialist slave numbers (social ...
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ERNST HANFSTAENGL, SWASTIKAS, & NATIONAL SOCIALISM - Franz Ernst ...
Roosevelt was so impressed by Bellamy's book that Roosevelt wrote ... Roosevelt's policies (Bellamy schemes) were imposed by law on Americans, nevertheless. ...
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SUPPORT CAPITALISM ! IN GOLD WE TRUST, the hatred of money is the root of all evil. It is impossible to overstate the significance of Franklin Roosevelt's confiscation from Americans. Sure, Roosevelt paid Americans more money for the gold he seized than did Roosevelt's socialist comrade Castro. It was illegal for Americans to buy and own gold American coins, but Americans could enjoy more freedom (and that freedom) by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Switzerland, where U.S. gold coins could be purchased in Swiss banks (though it was illegal for them to bring those American coins back into the U.S.). A fan of this web site who is a doctor purchased U.S. gold coins in Switzerland in 1956.
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THE FLAG INSTITUTE www.flaginstitute.org claims to be the world's ...
Oct 16, 2007 ... FDR Roosevelt Nazi salute Fascist Hitler Third Reich As early as the 1920's, ... Roosevelt also attended Harvard and knew Hanfstaengl. ...
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NAZIS, FASCISTS, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS Edward Bellamy, Industrial ...
The USA’s worst president, the socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ... Roosevelt’s national socialism coincided with the 1938 publication of “Talks on ...
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PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE & ADOLF HITLER, Youth's Companion, Francis ...
Dec 14, 2008 ... In one photograph (Granger Collection, N.Y.), Johnson presents President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to a group of industrial leaders in ...
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EDWARD BELLAMY, FRANCIS BELLAMY, SWASTIKAS, NAZISM, LOOKING ...
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed national socialism and socialist slave numbers (social security) in 1935 as a "worker's" program for Roosevelt’s ...
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20 October 2008  TO: Editor, The Washington Times

Dear Editor:

Your equating George W. Bush with FDR is spot-on ("Franklin Delano Bush," October 20).  Both presidents recklessly increased government's role in the economy - a move that proved (in FDR's case) and will prove (in Bush's case) to do nothing but saturate the economy with such uncertainty as to frighten away entrepreneurs and investors.

But popular history will almost surely remember Bush, not as a second FDR, but as a second Herbert Hoover.  The myth will be made that Bush was a staunch free-marketeer who was succeeded in the Oval Office by a charismatic saint whose hyperactive interventions saved the economy (even though precious little evidence of economic salvation will appear in the data).  History will forget Bush's interventions just as it has forgotten Hoover's - as it has forgotten that Hoover signed the largest tariff hike in U.S. history; as it has forgotten that Hoover tried to create jobs by deporting hundreds of thousands of Mexicans; as it has forgotten that Hoover signed the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, and created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; as it has forgotten the Fed's panicked response to economic anxiety during Hoover's term.

History will repeat itself, blaming capitalism for a problem caused and intensified by government interventions.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux, Chairman, Department of Economics
Enterprise Hall, George Mason University

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TO: Editor, The New York Times

The title of Frank Rich's column today proclaims that "Herbert Hoover Lives."  Indeed he does.  But contrary to Mr. Rich's argument, Hoover's ghost seems to animate President Obama at least as much as it animates G.O.P. members of Congress.

In response to the economic downturn of the early 1930s, President Hoover signed the largest tariff hike in U.S. history (Smoot-Hawley); he tried to spur the residential real-estate market with the Federal Home Loan Bank Act; he sought to assist the financial sector by launching the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; and he aimed to decrease unemployment through public-works programs with the Emergency Relief and Construction Act.

Oh, and he also raised taxes on corporations and on the rich.  No laissez faire President he!

Seems to me as if U.S. President #44 has had some séances with U.S. President #31.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux, Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
1 February 2009

(Hoover's forcible repatriation of Mexicans IS a policy that lots of today's Republicans would likely endorse.)

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SOCIALISM: The joy of mismanagement.

A Horrible, Little-Known Legacy of the Great Depression
Posted by Lew Rockwell

Writes Bob Higgs:

Not many people are aware that during the early 1930s, thousands of Americans emigrated from the United States to the USSR. Some, many of them unemployed engineers and technical workers, went simply in search of employment in the Soviets’ big push to industrialize; others went in search of a better society they mistakenly believed the Communists were building.

No doubt, most of them became disillusioned after a while, if not immediately. Worse, thousands of them were enmeshed in Stalin’s purges of the latter 1930s and ended up in the Gulag, where prisoners endured an extraordinarily harsh life, usually cut short by a painful death after a few months or years. Some of these victims managed to appeal to U.S. diplomats inside the USSR for help, only to be turned away by over-cautious junior-level careerists or, in effect, by supercilious higher-ups who were even more despicable.

Tim Tzouliadis has written a book about these things, The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags, Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia. For an interesting and informative review, see Adam Hochschild’s article in The Times Literary Supplement, December 23, 2008. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5390210.ece

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To the Editor:

Detroit auto executives persistently plead for Uncle Sam to bail them out - in part from the consequences of regulatory burdens that Uncle Sam himself imposed ("Auto Makers Detail Restructuring Plans," December 2).  This unsavory spectacle calls to mind an observation by the great Depression-era journalist Dorothy Thompson, who wrote during the height of the New Deal that "Unfortunately our policies are made by people who are often sadistic anti-capitalists....  They seem to think that the way to socialize any industry is first to bankrupt it and then socialize the losses."

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030


No one should wonder why the St. Petersburg Times is called "Pravda West."  It has a horrid heritage. Its heritage is so horrid that the journalist and historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets") helped launch the Pointer Institute to counter-act the Poynter Institute. http://rexcurry.net/mediapoint.html

The Poynter Institute and the St. Petersburg Times are both examples of why government schools are unconstitutional, and have destroyed a free press, and must end.

Nelson Poynter, son of the founder of the St. Petersburg Times newspaper, and one of the namesakes of the "Poynter Institute," was one of the "point men" in Hollywood for the USA's worst president, the socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). http://rexcurry.net/socialism-roosevelt.html

Nelson Poynter (1903 – 1978) moved to Florida in 1912 when his father bought the Saint Petersburg Times newspaper. Nelson Poynter began buying stock from his father in 1935, and he became an editor in 1939. He stayed in this position until his father's death in 1953 when he was appointed president. He co-founded the Congressional Quarterly with his wife, Henrietta. He established the Poynter Fund in 1954 to honor his father.

Roosevelt imposed the Office of War Information (OWI) by executive order in June 1942 in order to seize even more control than FDR had from the half-dozen overlapping propaganda agencies that had operated before the war. Infusing movies with propaganda fell to the OWI’s Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP). The BMP was run by the former newspaperman Lowell Mellett. His deputy was Nelson Poynter, the 39-year-old socialist publisher of the St . Petersburg Times.
http://rexcurry.net/mediapoint.html

Poynter acted as a promoter of socialism in films of the day, censoring anything that was too pro-liberty, and even seeing that movies produced in that era had to pass inspection by the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics located in New York (see MGM's 1940 movie "Song Of Russia," a blatant propaganda movie glorifying the socialist misery of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The Roosevelt administration's Office of War Information (which claimed the right to "comment" on film scripts) had the script for "Song of Russia" vetted by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

Smilar criticisms is merited by Poynter's involvement with film's such as "Hitler's Children" concerning the National Socialist German Workers Party. Note that the title of the film is not "National Socialist Children" evidencing a misleading habit similar to one that is still used at the St. Petersburg Times newspaper.

Also note this quote written by Robyn Blumner in the St. Petersburg Times: "The [free] market is not the best part of America. Not even close. Our government is the best part – or at least it used to be before the current gang took over."

The governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the National Socialist German Workers Party were part of the socialist inquisition that caused the Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million dead under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million dead under the Peoples' Republic of China; ~20 million dead under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. 

In 1939, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) joined as allies with the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP) to invade Poland in a plan to divide up Europe. Even after the National Socialist German Workers Party ended, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics continued to pursue (and expand) the goals it had agreed to with the NSGWP.

Poynter-style propaganda lives on today at the the St. Petersburg Times. http://rexcurry.net/medianazi.html

The newspaper employs writers who deliberately use the word "Nazi" in the continuing effort to rehabilitate socialism and to NEVER write the actual name of the horrid Party: National Socialist German Workers' Party. On at least one occasion, after being specifically asked (during the writing of an article) to identify the actual full name of the Party, a St. Petersburg Times writer refused to do so.  It is the same propaganda policy employed by Nelson Poynter regarding "Hilter's Children" and other films in order to promote deadly socialism in the U.S. http://rexcurry.net/reciting-the-pledge-of-allegiance1918.jpg

For more on the topic read "Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood" by Robert Mayhew. It recalls Ayn Rand's testimony about the movie "Song of Russia" before the the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.

Ayn Rand debunked the movie as pro-Soviet propaganda and deliberate lies about the miserable reality of life under socialism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The author Robert Mayhew supports each part of her testimony that indicts the historic mess of the Soviet socialists.  Mayhew reveals Rand right in each respect.

Dr. Mayhew even interviewed the surviving co-writer of Song of Russia, ex-"Communist" Richard Collins. The book is a scary revelation about socialist influence in Hollywood - and Washington.

Dr. Mayhew goes beyond the presentation of historical facts. He discusses the political, philosophical and ethical impact of the HUAC investigations regarding free speech, blacklists, "naming names," and truthfulness regarding wartime propaganda, etc. He gives Ayn Rand's views, based in part on previously unpublished work, and his own illuminating analysis.

Dr. Mayhew also reveals the hypocrisy and lies of socialists in Hollywood and of their successors their and in the newspaper business and media everywhere.  He refutes their smears of Rand, which continue to this day.

The book also provides even more proof (as if any were needed) that FDR and Herbert Hoover were actually of the same socialist persuasion, the so called Progressives.   FDR lied (in order to gain election) about his intention to cut government and then FDR expanded the massive socialism that Hoover had previously launched.


22 August 2009

Editor, The New York Times Book Review
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

To the Editor:

Suggesting that President Herbert Hoover followed laissez-faire policies, David Leonhart writes that "we can't rerun the past year with a Hooverite economic strategy" to see what its outcome would have been ("Theory and Morality in the New Economy," August 19)

No need to do so, for the past year WAS run "with a Hooverite economic strategy."  From Pres. Hoover's 52 percent increase in government spending to his running the third-largest budget deficit then in U.S. history - and from his creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to his signing of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act - Hoover's hyperactive intervention nearly 80 years ago was not very different from Bush's and Obama's hyperactive interventions today.  Hoover himself, campaigning for re-election in October 1932, bragged of rejecting the advice of "reactionary economists [who] urged that we should allow the liquidation to take its course until it had found its own bottom. "*

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University

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