Government Needs a History Lesson
It is high time that someone called attention to the idiotic and mean-spirited proposals being discussed in Washington in the name of budget balancing (“Republican Counter-Revolution Will Be a Net Loss and a Lost Net” by Robert Eisner, Nov. 5).
Doesn’t anyone in Congress remember what happened to our country following the last pro-business attitudes before 1929? Doesn’t anyone remember that the reason for the initiation of federal programs for the relief of hunger, unemployment, housing shortages, etc. was the fact that state governments were either unwilling or unable to solve these problems on the local level? Don’t they remember that regulations to protect workers, to save the environment, to protect children, to improve education were initiated because real problems existed in the real world and the private market system could not or would not solve them?
Eisner’s column is a real contribution to the discussion of today’s real problems.
LEO A. GOLDBERG
Los Angeles
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