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Ponderables
Wednesday, May 22,1963 University Daily Kansan
Goldwater and the TVA
You could almost hear Senator Goldwater gnash his teeth: the President of the United States (one of those creeping-socialism Democrats) had hailed the crown jewel of the New Deal as this country's answer to socialism.
President Kennedy was speaking of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. The President said the TVA was this country's answer to socialism. The President said this government venture into the once-hallowed field of private enterprise has done a wonderful job of stimulating private enterprise.
THE PRESIDENT said that Big Spending by Big Government during the Depression had resulted in a strong, self-sufficient economy in the region where the giant power development touched.
No one will deny that the TVA has strengthened the economy in that area. But plenty of men who are old enough to have experienced the Depression are still running around crying, "Creeping Socialism," anytime the government in Washington tries to repeat the pump-priming success of the TVA.
The TVA has not resulted in any measurable erosion of personal freedoms in the areas down South where the development touched the lives of millions.
On second thought, that's not entirely true.
THE GOVERNMENT infringed on the right of those millions of persons to starve and suffer the hell of poverty. But then we didn't have the Right to Starve in the Bill of Rights.
From listening to Sen. Goldwater, you get the impression that it was simply an oversight by our otherwise all-knowing founding fathers; surely they really meant to include starvation in our Bill of Rights.
Already this treatise of reason has degenerated into the hack diatribe of all persons who weary of listening to the cries of "Creeping Socialism."
But until the Free Traders-No Government Intervention boys find a new line, it looks
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
Short Ones
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.—Thomas Wolfe
A wise man does not try to hurry history.—Adlai Stevenson
like we are going to have to suffer through more tired and pointless diatribue.
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THE STATES' Rights boys have proven both vocal and durable - so long as they can still dip into the public works Pork Barrel while they shout about government interference with their quaint habit of treating Negroes worse than the White Supremacists deserve to be treated themselves.
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Most of the New, Old and Middle-Age Conservatives wouldn't seriously recommend turning back the clock of progress and undoing what the much-hated New Deal has accomplished. But they do want a return to the good old days.
To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.—John Mason Brown
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.—Ernest Hemingway
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No sensible man watches his feet hit ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next.-Ernest Haycox
You know what they mean. They want to return to the system which necessitated the New Deal in the first place. Now that is one freedom I would just as soon see permanently eroded.
— Terry Murphy
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