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Interstate Highway System: Proposed by Roosevelt and erected by Eisenhower (a Republican), the Interstate system was a big government project.
GI Bill: This act of Congress enabled millions upon millions of Americans to get college educations, something that most Americans had never had the opportunity to do previously.
Labor Laws: An end to child labor, 40 hour work weeks, the right of employees to collectively bargain, overtime pay, workplace safety, all of the things we take for granted today are thanks to liberal laws passed in the first half of this century.
Marshall Plan: rebuilt Europe, and is the major reason that Communism never made it past East Berlin.
Environmental Laws:The environment has gotten much better in the last 30 years thanks to liberals. Bald Eagles fly once again thanks to endangered species laws, most rivers and lakes are clean again due to anti-pollution laws, and frequent smog days are a thing of the past in most big American cities.
Food safety laws: Today cases of food poisoning are rare, and consumers know that whatever they buy is safe to eat.
Workplace safety laws: Long hours in unsafe conditions are much rarer today than in the past.
Economic Growth: Liberalism and economic prosperity go hand-in-hand. Unlike the pseudo-boom of the 1980's, the 1950's and 1960's were a period of sustained and real growth for all sectors of the economy and all social classes.
Space Program: If you are reading this on a computer, thank the space program and the liberals who got it going.
Civil rights movement: Liberal ideals drove the biggest change in American society since the Civil War, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The fight against Totalitarianism: Under the leadership of Roosevelt and Truman, we won.
The Tennessee Valley project:The Depression-era government program bought electricity to thousands of impoverished families in Appalachia, prevented floods, and created thousands of new jobs.
Women's right to vote: Before 1920, half of America's population could not exercise the essential duty of citizenship.
Universal Public Education: The reason America is so strong economically is because we have a well-educated citizenry.
National Weather Service:
This is one of those things you never think about, but you are glad its there.
Product Labeling/Truth in Advertising Laws
Public Health: Government funded water and sewage systems are an important part of modernity. In addition, organizations such as the National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease Control play an important part in maintaining the national health and preventing epidemics through research, vaccination programs, etc.
Rural Electrification:This allowed remote, rural areas of the country the basic convinience of electricity.
Bank Deposit Insurance
Earned Income Tax Credit
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