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In reply to the discussion: The good that came out of FDR does not out weigh the bad [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)That we will have a high growth economy and full employment if we burn coal and do other bad stuff to the environment.
They claim that giving massive tax breaks to the rich and rich corporations will lead to a high growth economy.
They claim that SS, Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP are the problem instead of a bloated defense budget, that is many times that of our closest rival.
Following your logic, we know that everything Trump claims is wrong, even morally wrong. But we should acquiesce anyway because of the potential benefits that he claims will happen.
When FDR was pushing SS (Medicare was not done by him, neither were Blacks covered by SS), by kissing the asses of racists, that was ok? No one knew whether SS would work when it first came out, just like we can't say with 100% certainty that the bullshit Trump claims can't possibly come true (logically, years of data says that he has his head up his ass, but at least data exists to refute him, no such thing existed for FDR).