I did not pen these words, but they are so true:
Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, “Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the present Administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them- we will do more of them we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything.”
But, my friends, these evaders are banking too heavily on the shortness of our memories. No one will forget that they had their golden opportunity—twelve long years of it.
Remember, too, that the first essential of doing a job well is to want to see the job done. Make no mistake about this: the Republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The Republican leadership is against the job’s being done.
The most astonishing fact to me is that this is from a Democratic Convention speech that Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered in 1936. And it still rings true today.
My warning is, beware of the republicans offerings when it comes to budget work. They don’t want to save Medicare. They want it to fail fast. They don’t want to spread financial opportunities across the population. They want to institute a class system akin to the old British system, with Lords and Dukes and other nobility. Not in title, but in practice. Bu having an elite of people who owns close to everything, means that the rest of the people will become vassals with no chance to move into the owning class.
