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Roosevelt's New Deal transformed America from a unique country in which everyone could live his life as he saw fit into a welfare state in which most business was supervised from Washington. No longer was America run by the people - or even by Congress. Instead, it was now directed by bureaucrats operating in regulatory agencies like the AAA, FCA, CCC, FCI, SMA, FSA, NLRB, PWA, WPA, FDIC, FSLIC, SEC, SSA, REA, EHFA - directing when we shall sow and when we shall reap. Effecting a revolution Why would Americans give up their freedom for a system that had never worked well in the Old World? They did it because Roosevelt never attacked the American Way head-on. He praised the Constitution, but said it must be updated from "horse and buggy" days. He never discussed the liberties he was stealing - talking instead about government's power to do good. Any objectors were challenged to prove that some other program could cure the Depression perfectly overnight. Those who protested the loss of freedom were dismissed as alarmists and "economic royalists" who wanted to continue exploiting their neighbors. And now the American people had traded their birthright - the freest nation the world had ever known - for a mess of pottage. In 1940, the unemployment rate was still 15 percent, the Depression was still severe and Roosevelt was maneuvering America into war to distract attention from the New Deal's failures. The Bush revolution In 2000, George Bush won the presidency promising "limited government," reading the Constitution literally, and rejecting the concept of "nation-building" - the practice of imposing pro-American governments on foreign nations. But, once in office, he produced a federal budget limited by nothing. And now he's making the Constitution an instrument of his own power - even as he imposes a new government on Afghanistan. The last of the Bill of Rights The Roosevelt coup d'etat destroyed the Ninth and 10th amendments - the ones limiting the government's functions. But now, the Bush coup d'etat is aimed at erasing these last restrictions on government power. Bush wants to decide when people can have a jury trial, be safe from cruel and unusual punishment, be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures and able to confront their accusers. When the Bush New Deal is completed, the Bill of Rights will survive in name only. And you will live and breathe only by the sufferance of the all-mighty government. Your fate will be in the hands of people like George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Teddy Kennedy and Strom Thurmond. Effecting revolution II Like Roosevelt, George Bush isn't attacking the Constitution and the American way head-on. He claims to want to preserve the Constitution, but says we must put security first. He diverts attention from our lost liberties by talking about ridding the world of evil-doers. Objectors are challenged to provide another program that can destroy terrorism perfectly. If George Bush were a Democrat, many conservatives would be fighting him to the death. But too many conservatives have abandoned their principles and begun deciding right and wrong on the basis of party labels. More pottage We, too, are trading the last remnants of America for a mess of pottage. The War on Terrorism has no more chance to succeed than the New Deal, the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, or the War on Illiteracy. The first revolution for big government was effected by a man who railed against big government and said he wanted to save capitalism. The second revolution is being engineered by a man who claims to be for limited government and the preservation of freedom. Even as he seeks to destroy the last vestiges of a free America. If your retirement funds are vulnerable to market crashes, corporate scandals, wartime intrusions, or any other unexpected events, you need to make your investment portfolio bullet-proof. Harry Browne is the director of public policy at the 20 American Liberty Foundation.
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