Weekends television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next, author and columnist amity shlaes, the chair of the Calvin Coolidge foundation, talks about the Great Depression, taxes and president ial legacies. The former wall street Journal Editorial Board member is the author of five nonfiction books including the New York Times bestseller, the forgotten man, which was released as a graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, whos the forgotten man . Be. Guest the forgotten man, who was he . President roosevelt spoke to have forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid, so that would be the homeless man. But in the era that president roosevelt spoke about this inoto the 1930s, they were aware of be another forgotten man. Many americans then had learned about this other forgotten man in school, and that forgotten man was the man who pays for th government project, the third party. Theres even a littlal yes pa be about the forgotten man, that other forgotten man. Ve they
Pushing those up at a level they could not afford. National Recovery Association . Guest the governments deal that would stimulate the economy was given this giant plan to make the industrial sector booming again. Roosevelt signed it early on it in 33. When you look at law it is a bunch of political impulses expressed on a piece of paper, instatued and then enforced. So the impulses were economy of scale is good. Big is always better because at that time we because at that time we are all hostage to fashion. The economy of scale bigger is better was hot. Bigger is always better and you want to question that i am not sure if it is necessary. Another premise was Consumer Choice is bad. If the consumer pics he slows down the assembly line. Because if uuniform and uuniform is faster and better. You told that to the starbucks shareholder because it is a product premised on choice. We can take that extra 18 seconds to pick exactly what kind of milk to have in our law take. They believe choic
You can send us a tweet or give us a call. You can send us a tweet or join us on facebook. Com. This morning from inside the New York Times, and other look back at what happened thursday, essentially setting up the debate that that will come front and center on monday. She makes this point Sarah Wheaton has a q a on a book focusing on the dodd frank legislation. You can read it online at nytimes. Com. Nytimes. Com. T one of the questions from Sarah Wheaton, her take away from the book, is there something fundamentally broken about washington . His results were the 2010 elections says Robert Kaiser wiped out the majority in the house. We obviously have a gridlock again. On the issue of changing the Senate Filibuster rule, which the senate is taking up this week, the socalled Nuclear Option as it has been coined over the last couple of months, here is more from orin hatch of utah from a what he has to say about that possibility , this isas you can see a real mess. Thes not a good mess ar
You can see the numbers on the screens. You can join the conversation taking place on facebook. It you can send us a tweet. A journal. Send this is becky howser writing on our facebook page. I want proof that they get it. I want to see them cut their salaries by 50 . That is just one of the many comments that we have already gotten on facebook. But do you want from washington . This is an politico this morning. Reelection. Isk 73 years old. He was first elected in 1994. From the daily caller, Tea Party Groups are making and spending millions but not on candidates. Arewellknown groups spending 80 of their money if you want to read the full article you can go to the daily caller. Hill,s from the well be carrying that live at 10 30 a. M. What do you want from washington . We will start with marie. I want to see democracy really work. I feel that are rights are being denied. Feeling like here in , we went to vote for who we wanted for president. The majority of our voters voted against tha
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