Belts Quote by Jonathan Alter

Republicans who controlled the government in the 1920s insisted that national prosperity depended on government protection of the rich, who they believed would plow…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and the Democrats.…

— Kshama Sawant

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Housing has always been a key to Great Resets. During the Great Depression and New Deal, the federal government created a new system of…

— Richard Florida

Since Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the New Deal in the 1930s, radical conservatives have railed against the idea that the government should…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

— Garet Garrett

The Democratic political juggernaut that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal meant that Republicans had to scramble to figure out a way…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to…

— Ed Royce

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

— Michael Parenti

The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that way.

— Ben Fountain

Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against…

— Heather Cox Richardson