On Jun 17, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>> The best proof of that is that no truly national social program has
>> ever been established in this country. Every social program that
>> came to existence involved some form of dicking around with "public-
>> private partnerships" i.e. pork and barrel for local interest
>> groups, political patronage etc.
>
> Social security?
But the New Deal was a unique moment in American history. Nothing like it before or since.
Doug