Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Henry George espouses wild and illogical doctrines.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (Republican, NY), “The City in Modern Life”, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1895
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This quotation is important because so many modern conservatives regard Keynes as a Marxist economist. Those who do, generally have not read neither the one or the other—possibly neither.
Milton Friedman is a man with dangerously simplistic visions and explanations of the economic world.
Both Rinfret and Friedman were conservative economists who profoundly disagreed with each other and said so.
In the midst of the Great Depression, Townsend had organized millions of Americans into “Townsend Clubs” to save money for their old age retirement. Townsend had proposed that the Government should run such a program where workers paid in every week and then all who were retired or disabled received $30 a week for like. Most economists of the time thought the Townsend old age pension plan unworkable: There was no national pension plan at the time. When Townsend together with two right wing religious extremists formed the Union Party, the one vulnerability that the Roosevelt Administration felt it had was the lack of an old-age pension plan. Within a few days, Roosevelt proposed a new plan of the New Deal to Congress. It was called Social Security. It passed in record time. See {616648} for Harry S Truman’s view of economists.
Critics of his wondered how he, a world class neurosurgeon, would react to a political proposal to “throw the neurosurgeons out and use common sense instead.
Train was an ardent supporter of Women’s Suffrage; however, he did not favor negro suffrage until they were sufficiently educated. He was also a Democrat. This alienated Garrison and other leading abolitionists. However Train was such an effective speaker for women’s rights that Anthony and her colleagues kept traveling with him on the lecture circuit. He was the one, for example, that initiated the creation of their periodical, Revolution.
“it” was the then conservative Republican notion of providing tax cuts and other benefits to the wealthy.
Supply Side Economics was a new name for a long popular conservative economic theory advocated by Ronald Reagan and the Republicans. After the nation’s general experience (all but the wealthy) did not profit from the doctrine, the name “supply side” was dropped but the same ideology was brought back by George W, Bush with disastrous results. The middle class eroded and the Great Recession was produced. In the 2012 Presidential election Republican Mitt Romney, a wealthy businessman who had personally profited from the ideology in the past advocated the same ideology be adopted nationally again.
Since the end of WWII till the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Bulgarians were part of the Soviet Bloc and operated under communism that was supposedly based on Marxism. However it was not in many critical respects. But few modern Russian style Communists are familiar with or understand Marxism.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or his initials T. R., was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900 and the 25th vice president of the United States from March to September 1901. Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for anti-trust and Progressive policies.
