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In reply to the discussion: What's with the no New Deal? [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)The tremendous hysteria on the right was that any such programs were the Obama version of the Hitler Youth. Really, that's what they called these things. I went to schools built by the WPA. My dad was employed by the CCC and there are parks you can go to (if they haven't been sold off) from the work they did. The obstructionists won't allow it, period. They hold the majority in the Congress and are powerful in the Senate.
The message put out about those programs was that they were going to be squads of minorities or illegals coming to yank the patriots out of their beds after seizing their guns, sending them to the FEMA camps to be killed. They started talking about the color of dots on rural mail boxes, they put out movies how all these programs were for a fourth reich.
This was consistent on programs by Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Alex Jones. When Obama pushed to close Gitmo and bring the prisoners here to be tried under our laws, they said he was importing a Muslim army to destroy the USA from within. Which was in keeping with their meme that any public works or employment program would be swearing allegiance to Obama over the US Constitution.
So after manufacturing that in their media, the GOP prevented funding to move them here. Just as slick as could be, they said Obama's failure to close Gitmo was proof he was the dictator they said that he was from the beginning. Both sides have been consistently played for both sides.
Obama made many alternative energy proposals from the beginning that would have provided jobs and got us away from oil. That began attacks he was planning to starve the USA of all energy sources to bring us to our knees and break the economy to force us to accept giving up our sovereignty. Everything this man has done has been attacked six ways from Sunday.
EDIT: As far as people HURTING, that's the plan of the GOP. The more desperate people are, the more likely to fall into the hands of cults, demagoges and other people offering them somone to blame and a quick fix. Their solution is to bring the government down and disband the USA into camps of states controlled by local leaders and then root out their enemies. Which is okay for those connected, and very bad for those who aren't. It's their model.