Continuing on with the week’s topic
I personally have long been convinced that the outright ownership of farms ought to be greatly restricted. My own view is that under intelligent state control is should be possible to introduce a planned flexibility into the congrestion and rigidity of our outdated economic system.
Rexford Tugwell – FDR’s Undersecretary of Agriculture
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how close our nation came to centrally planned farming.
Thankfully, as well as of course, sadly, the situations in Europe and the Far East started heating up. By the implementation of the Lend/Lease Act, Roosevelt had removed all but a scant few of his New Deal Utopians and replaced them with people who knew how to get things done.
Rexford Tugwell was also the head of the Resettlement Administration (which FDR created with an Executive Order, so think of him as the “Resettlement Czar”). If you can get past all the pages written by those who deify FDR, you’ll find that Tugwell had drawn up “planned communities” that would have put made Soviet Russia look as though they hadn’t quite gotten Communism down.
“made Soviet Russia look as though they hadn’t quite gotten Communism down.” Ah, the progressive myth, “they did it wrong”…
That is precisely why it keeps rearing its deformed ugly head, because the progressives in this country are so damned positive that it’ll work “if we just get the right people in there”. Barry and his Chicago cronies being only the latest incarnation of “the right people”.
*spit*
What kind of warped world view does it take to look at private ownership of land/farms and see that as a rigid and outdated economic system.
I never believed in reincarnation before, but somewhere in the Obama administration, Rexford Tugwell has been reincarnated, chomping at the bit to implement his “grand” plan.