The Messiah’s reincarnation of Roosevelt Depression politics

Just in the nick of time for tomorrow’s massive Tea Party response to the out-of-line Obama administration, the resurrection of this authentic 1934 Chicago Tribune cartoon. `Planned Economy or Planned Destruction?’, the cartoon title, is the same question millions of Americans are asking 65 years later in 2009. Figures of the day, giddy with power, are driving the horse pulling a wagon to ground. “Depleting the Resources of the Soundest Government in The World”, are the words emblazoned on the bag of the wagon. These figures of the day include Rexford Tugwell, who in 1933 was appointed to work in Roosevelt's administration, working in the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1934, he was promoted to the undersecretary position of the department, then became the head of the Resettlement Administration, a federal agency that relocated the urban poor to the suburbs and impoverished farmers to new rural communities. In 1936, when the RA came under political fire for being overly utopian and socialistic, he resigned from his position in the administration.

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