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That’s not what the right thinks. They are obsessed with him and rolling back the new deal.
by lokar 4mo ago
That’s not what the right thinks. They are obsessed with him and rolling back the new deal.
- hyhatqtv 4mo agoThe New Deal was mostly rolled back a while ago. After all corporatism did generally fall out of fashion for after WW2 (and of course there was quite a bit of opposition of state planning due to geopolitical reasons in the 50s and later)
- lokar 4mo agoSocial security? And the follow-up, Medicare?
- hedora 4mo agoThose are both being actively dismantled.
- myroon5 4mo agoSocial Security and Medicare are ~26% and ~16.5% of the federal budget (excluding the 15% of the budget that's just financing previous years' budgets): https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
- lokar 4mo agoAnd?