ODE TO THE WELFARE STATE With the arrival of a shebang of socialists taking up their seats in Congress, I thought you might like to read this.  In 1930 America had Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s. The  New York Daily News on Friday, November 4, 1949 published welfare state proposal of President Harry S Truman   called Fair Deal.  And now America has a shebang of socialists calling for a   Green New Deal The following was nationally distributed in the United States by the Associated Press and appeared in the New York Daily News on Friday, November 4, 1949. The measures being referenced are those in the Fair Deal, the cradle-to-grave welfare state proposal of President Harry S Truman to follow up on Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s. Fortunately at the time, most of these measures were not adopted but with bi-partisan support, most have since become federal law. ODE TO THE WELFARE STATE Mr. Truman’s St. Paul, Minn., pie-for-everybody speech last night reminded us that, at the tail-end of the recent session of Congress, Republican Clarence J. Brown (R-Ohio) jammed into the Congressional Record the following poem, describing its author only as a “prominent Democrat of the State of Georgia”: Democratic Dialog Father, must I go to work? No, my lucky son. We’re living now on Easy Street On dough from Washington. We’ve left it up to Uncle Sam, So don’t get exercised. Nobody has to give a damn— We’ve all been subsidized. But if Sam treats us all so well And feeds us milk and honey, Please, daddy, tell me what the hell He’s going to use for money. Don’t worry, bub, there’s not a hitch In this here noble plan— He simply soaks the filthy rich And helps the common man. But, father, won’t there come a time When they run out of cash And we have left them not a dime When things will go to smash? My faith in you is shrinking, son, You nosy little brat; You do too damn much thinking, son, To be a Democrat