1936 ~ A Look Back in History: American Ideals vs. The New Deal

[Mechelle De Craene]

"The Supreme Court has reversed some ten or twelve of the New Deal major enactments. Many of these acts were a violation of the rights of men and of self government. Despite the sworn duty of the Executive and Congress to defend these rights, they have sought to take them into their own hands. That is an attact of the foundations of freedom.

More than this, the indepedence on the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Executuve are pillars at the doors of liberty. For three years the word 'must' has invaded the independence of Congress. And the Congress has abandoned its responsiblity to check even the expenditures of money...

We have seen these gigantic expenditures and this torrent waste pile up a national debt which two generations cannot repay...

Billions have been spent to prime the economic pump...We have seen the frantic attempts to find new taxes on the rich. Yet three-quarters of the bill will be sent to the average man and the poor. He and his wife and his grandchildren will be giving a quarter of all their working days to pay taxes. Freedom to work for himself is changed into a slavery of work for the follies of the government...

We have seen the building up of a horde of political officials. We have seen the pressures upon the helpless and destitute to trade political support for relief. Both are a pollution of the very foundations of liberty."

-Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, American Ideals Verses The New Deal 1936







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