(01-14-2019, 01:58 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-14-2019, 01:29 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: In a better world FDR would've been stopped.

Maybe.  Social Security can't be taken away now, as so many people have paid in that stopping it is harder than keeping it going.  But you can definitely argue that it didn't help end the Depression back then, and you can definitely argue that it's hurt productivity with its taxes and the inducement it offers to leave the labor market even if you're still able bodied.  But the same process of pressuring the Supreme Court justices to stretch the commerce clause also gave us minimum wage laws and 40 hour work weeks, which, in my opinion, have been almost entirely positive for us.