A century ago, Americans faced a raft of challenges much like today's: asset bubbles and crashes, predatory lending and financial goliaths, to name but a few. The progressives of that era, however,...
A century ago, Americans faced a raft of challenges much like today's: asset bubbles and crashes, predatory lending and financial goliaths, to name but a few. The progressives of that era, however, did something about it -- laying a foundation for much of the social contract of the 20th Century. What would they say about the crises -- and policy responses -- of 2009?
In their new book, Longman and Boshara show how today's progressives have much to learn from their counterparts of a hundred years ago -- in fact, more than from the New Deal. The authors also offer many new domestic policy ideas -- public investment in freight rail and "steel wheel" interstates, small-scale banking, a Basic American Mortgage, and a civilian equivalent of the veterans health system -- that offer highly creative solutions to America's most pressing needs.
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The so-called "progressives" are actually the root of the problems in the United States. Progressives have been the dominant shaper of our urban politics (look at the wreckage of our cities) our public schools (look at the ignorance of even our college graduates and our high incarceration rates) and look at our vast federal and state debts.
PRogressivism is anti-human, anti-social, and politically and economically corrosive.
These are all great ideals and your ultimate goals are certainly noble (on the surface)...but there are two huge problems with your "solutions. First, where will the government get the money to pay for all of these programs? And the second problem, which actually supersedes the first, is...under what Constitutional authority are all of these programs justified?
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PRogressivism is anti-human, anti-social, and politically and economically corrosive.