Ron Paul's Policies Would Put Many Americans in Peonage

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Ron Paul's Policies Would Put Many Americans in Peonage

http://news.yahoo.com/ron-pauls-policies-put-many-americans-peonage-174500674.html

COMMENTARY | Ron Paul's policies would turn back the clock to the days before Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, resulting in the destruction of the middle class as we know it. My parents grew up in the kind of society that Paul advocates. There was a small middle class of professionals and small business owners.

Farmers were considered middle class as they did not work for wages and owned their land, but many were heavily mortgaged and a good deal were poor. In the 1930s, working people were lowly paid wage slaves, lucky to have jobs.

Peonage was legal until finally outlawed in 1945 by a Supreme Court dominated by justices picked by FDR, who created the modern middle class, which was midwived by Harry Truman. The G.I. Bill provided education and home loans, and veterans were given a weekly stipend of $20 for one year. This program was called the 52/20 Club.

(opinion piece from Yahoo more at link)

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[SixthSense]

1. so, no change?