Bernie's Plans Modeled on FDR's New Deal: Social Security, Fair Labor Standards, Banking Regulation:

[amborin]

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FDR gave us the New Deal:

It included Social Security, fair labor standards, and banking regulation:

The "First New Deal" (1933–34) dealt with the pressing banking crises through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration provided $500 million for relief operations by states and cities, while the short-lived CWA (Civil Works Administration) gave localities money to operate make-work projects in 1933–34.

The "Second New Deal" in 1935–38 included the Wagner Act to promote labor unions, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) relief program (which made the federal government by far the largest single employer in the nation),
the Social Security Act, and new programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. The final major items of New Deal legislation were the creation of the United States Housing Authority and Farm Security Administration, both in 1937, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set maximum hours and minimum wages for most categories of workers.[7]

Bernie wants to give us a new New Deal--A Fair Deal.


Sanders is like FDR...

By Brent Budowsky, columnist, The Hill

When FDR was battling to continue his long fight to end the corruption of the financial system..... he said this at the Democratic National Convention in 1936:

For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor — other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

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Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.

Days after FDR spoke these visionary and courageous words, he won one of the great epic landslides in American history in 1936!

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/268396-on-banks-sanders-sounds-like-fdr

[grasswire]

1. Amborin, you are doing great work lately.

Just want to mention that.

[amborin]

4. Thanks, grasswire. You are, too. Your posts are terrific!

[bravenak]

2. Blacks were sidelined from full participation in the new deal

Segregated colleges and communities caused us to not be able to use the GI bill effectively. Redlining also hurt us substantially causing us to pay much higher rates, and foreclosed on more often.
Note: domestic workers were originalky left our of SS because the majority we black and female.
If this is what he is promising, he needs to tell us how he will prevent the uequal distribution of his new deal.

[Jefferson23]

3. The Bern is soooo yesterday.

[jillan]

5. Hartmann was playing some FDR clips on his show today - man! There is no doubt that Bernie is

the FDR of this generation.

Same attitude. Same principals. Same "I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell" beliefs.

[Donkees]

6. FDR: "Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob"

[uponit7771]

7. FDR had an 80% progressive congress, Sanders hasn't outlined what he'll do to get past the...

... the current bastard controlled GOP congress

[amborin]

8. Hillary would face much worse;

they would be intent on impeaching her

[uponit7771]

9. Hillary isn't promising unicorns !!! She actually is saying what she could do with executive power

[amborin]

10. she has no ideas and no program, just copies Bernie's plans when she sees them resonate

[amborin]

11. this is what Bernie's program stands for