{"id":1710,"date":"2009-04-22T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2009-04-22T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T16:18:18","slug":"does-history-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"Does History Repeat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this cartoon from Joe S.\u00a0 It appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 4\/21\/1934.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"cartoon from 1934 - history repeats itself\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3465240479\/cartoon-from-1934-history-repeats-itself.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3527\/3465240479_bbca2b5734.jpg?resize=406%2C500\" alt=\"cartoon from 1934 - history repeats itself\" width=\"406\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is a dire warning about the dangers of the socialist path the Roosevelt administration was advocating but in the 75 years since then the US and the worlds economy have boomed.\u00a0 We are all better off today than we were in 1934.\u00a0 Apparently some of what Roosevelt and the &#8220;young pinkies&#8221; were doing worked out pretty well.\u00a0 So do we have to conclude that Orr, the cartoonist, was wrong.\u00a0 No in a constitutional democracy like ours we need advocates for both sides.\u00a0 It may be that the concerns of the right about the death of the &#8220;sound government&#8221; tempered the actions of the left and the middle course was the one that worked.\u00a0 We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this cartoon from Joe S.\u00a0 It appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 4\/21\/1934. It is a dire warning about the dangers of the socialist path the Roosevelt administration was advocating but in the 75 years since then the US and the worlds economy have boomed.\u00a0 We are all better off today than we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-rA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}