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How are the public policy decisions of the 1960s still affecting the US today? @AmityShlaes joins the podcast to discuss. dailysign.al/2HXj7qV via @KatrinaTrinko @DailySignal
@AmityShlaes @KatrinaTrinko @DailySignal “When you compare the two progressive impulses of our past, the 1930s New Deal, 1960s Great Society, which costs us more? … People think New Deal was so socialist, but Great Society costs us more,” says Amity Shlaes, author of the new book, “Great Society: A New History.”
@AmityShlaes @KatrinaTrinko @DailySignal Shlaes: Imagine a period when everyone’s feeling really idealistic and they want to change the world, improve the world. Not just be good, be great. Sounds like now, but actually it was the early ’60s.
@AmityShlaes @KatrinaTrinko @DailySignal The only question in the early ’60s with all this idealism was, should the federal government be the vehicle for getting to great or should the private sector?
@AmityShlaes @KatrinaTrinko @DailySignal We chose the federal government, the public sector, and said, “We’re going to have a great society. We’re going to change things through legislation.”
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