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By Seth Mann at 9:21AM

Mar 6, 2010

Robert Taft Fights Back: The Old Right "Whips" the New Deal

Arm yourself in the battle of ideas against Obama's New New Deal (see the end of this post). Obama New New Deal

Robert Taft (1888-1953) was a prominent member of what is now known as the "Old Right" and an ardent anti-New Dealer. He is well-known for his non-interventionist foreign policy which he described in his book A Foreign Policy for Americans (available as a pdf from the Mises Institue). He opposed the New Deal and World War II, took a principled stand against the Nuremberg Trials as victor's justice, balanced the scales of labor and management that the New Dealers had tipped to the unions, and was named one of the five greatest senators in American history by John F. Kennedy in his Profiles in Courage.

"How now shall we behave?"

...Asked Garet Garrett in 1951. He was speaking about the huge expansion of governmental control in the post World War II/New Deal era.

Well, the same questions he asked back then still hold true today.

We, of course, means those who have been fighting the rise of the Welfare State and, in its name, the progressive socialization of American society. Shall they go on with it? In war as in peace, shall they continue to say what they think of a government that tells the people socialism and liberty may dwell together amicably in the same house?

Will government continue to ram socialized medicine, cap and trade, and other socialist policies down our throats? Sadly, we're on our way there.

As for me: New Deal part deux? I don't think so.

Stimulating Our Way to Rock Bottom

Ron Paul explains on LewRockwell.com today why government "stimulation" of the economy and job creation will only prolong the current economic problems. Rather than allowing private enterprise to make jobs with the lack of impediment necessary for a free and prosperous economy, "[p]oliticians and bureaucrats have already done their fair share to ensure that jobs in the private sector are prohibitively complicated and expensive to create." Then, of course, government rushes in to save the day with make-work jobs which both cost the
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