Obama, FDR, New Deal, and Wishful Thinking
Fantasy Headlines November, 2012:
Obama Wins! New FDR Slides into Repeat Victory in Record Landslide!
Even Big Business Supports New Deal Redux!
America Again the Land of Opportunity!
We Did It!
America Leads the Way Back to the World of Opportunity!
Obama Leads the Mayan Calendar Countdown to Transformational 12-12-2012
“Anyone who might long wistfully for a return to the New Deal,” he remarked bluntly not long ago, “should consider that America today is as far from the time of FDR as the New Deal was from Abe Lincoln and the Civil War.” Andy Stern, leader of the Service Employees International Union, America’s fastest-growing and second-largest public services union, put the cabosh to my dream headlines recently.