Robert Welch gave a speech in 1958. I summarized the first part myself below, but to get it all you have to watch the Youtube Video of him giving the speech.
1: Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
2: Higher and then much higher taxes.
3: An increasingly unbalanced budget, despite the higher taxes.
4: Wild inflation of our currency.
5: Government controls of prices, wages and materials, supposedly to combat inflation.
6: Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy, and every activity of our lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and in both the cost and reach of our domestic government.
7: Far more centralization of power in Washington and the practical elimination of our state lines.
8: The steady advance of federal aid to gain control over our school system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
9: A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare.
10: Consequent willingness of the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by the government.
Did this distinguished gentleman see into the future with crystal clear vision?
[youtube]AZU0c8DAIU4[/youtube]
1: Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
2: Higher and then much higher taxes.
3: An increasingly unbalanced budget, despite the higher taxes.
4: Wild inflation of our currency.
5: Government controls of prices, wages and materials, supposedly to combat inflation.
6: Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy, and every activity of our lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and in both the cost and reach of our domestic government.
7: Far more centralization of power in Washington and the practical elimination of our state lines.
8: The steady advance of federal aid to gain control over our school system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
9: A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare.
10: Consequent willingness of the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by the government.
Did this distinguished gentleman see into the future with crystal clear vision?
[youtube]AZU0c8DAIU4[/youtube]
