[ SECRET POST #2031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2031 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not entirely true. I realize that it's a standard right-wing talking point, but it's a lot more complicated than that. Government spending and federal deficits ballooned under George W. Bush in a way that they haven't under Obama, in large part because Bush and the Republican congress were all for spending huge amounts of money on everything from wars to prescription drug benefits for senior citizens -- just as long as nobody asked them to pay for any of it. And as others have pointed out here, the basic New Deal consensus is something that a mainstream young American of the 1940s would tend to be comfortable with, and not consider to be government overreach.

If you're thinking that the U.S. government during WW2 was all about rugged individualism and keeping government hands off private economic activity, you're very wrong. There was rationing, though nothing like Britain's. There were wage and price controls. There was serious, serious government involvement in a lot of aspects of life. What current Republicans call "bigger government" now is really not something that a guy of Cap's time would be likely to think represented any kind of overreach.