Everything Old Is New Again: Anti-New Deal 'Toons from the 1930s

[SemiCharmedQuark]

[DJ13]

1. Most of those were anti FDR

Is that a good thing?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. That's kind of my point. The hostility towards government help for the population isn't new.

These are the *same* talking points as today.

[redqueen]

12. And some are echoed by DUers, even. (nt)

[Uzybone]

3. Yes, the same lame charges

Too much govt spending during a recession/depression.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. Exactly. They haven't changed a bit.

[FSogol]

6. Its all the Republicans have.

Good ideas? No.
Good intentions? No.
Anything useful to add? Nope.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. You can even read Henry Ford calling the New Deal 'Class Warfare"

[cottonseed]

5. Amazing how little things change. Thanks for digging these up.

A couple generations pass and the arguments are still the same.

[Doctor_J]

7. News rags were right-wing shills then,

are right-wing shills now. those who forget history...

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Just shows the same people that owned the media back then ...

still own the media today.

[emulatorloo]

10. Recommended = THANK YOU n/t

[Jennicut]

11. Wow. The same lame arguments 80 years later.

Deficits were so so worried about back then to. IF FDR had tried to balance the budget back then it would have been even more of a disaster. Duh.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. Strange, isn't it? My grandma was a kid when they were spouting these and now I'm old enough to

have kids and they're *still* arguing the same things.

[Jennicut]

14. Me too. My grandma is 87 and I am 33. She loves Obama.

Just like she loved FDR.

[Supersedeas]

15. Songboy Eric Cantor croning on about Tyranny with Britanny

[uponit7771]

16. WOW!! This blows me away, the GOP hasn't changed in 823p924u24.2 years!!!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. And they probably won't change in the next 80 years either.

[goodgd_yall]

18. Not to mention

The same charges of "Socialism" were aimed at FDR's New Deal ideas too.

[BlooInBloo]

19. Very nice.