NO IT DID NOT!
Woodrow Wilson and 1913 was
step 1 ( Fed Reserve, Income tax and decoupling the Senate from state legislatures)
1 prints fiat money
2 allowed the masking of the problems, blames debt on revenue when it is spending, It is the blame game that exacerbates class warfare and divides and conquers the masses.
3 allowed for unfunded mandates and other spending that the states would have absolutely rejected.
FDR, the New Deal, his breaking of SCOTUS was
step 2
Unconstitutional programs were created and finally allowed after FDR threatened to pack the court. He was 0-fer at SCOTUS in his new deal programs before that threat. After that they all mysteriously became constitutional.
LBJs worst society coupled with Nixons gold/fiat actions were the final step (or maybe zer0care.)
FDR paved the way for Johnson's programs. They too are unconstitutional. The final straw was going full fiat ( Nixon) as there was now no barriers on spending and the fed became a printing press used to fund irresponsible and unconstitutional government.
" The Heritage Foundation published a report on the
50th anniversary (2014) of Johnson's "Great Society" speech. Data shows that poverty rates dropped dramatically between the end of World War II and 1964. And yet, despite expenditures of more than
$22 trillion since 1964
( to 2014) , the poverty rate has consistently remained between 12% and 15%."-
Since 2014 we have spent at least 10T on the worst society. It is NO coincidence that the debt almost matches the social spending. IT, the worst soceity, IS the debt and deficit and
it is on autopilot.
When I was in Austin, Texas, last week, I took the opportunity to visit the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library on the University of Texas campus. The library is housed in a beautiful building with impressive resources.
www.creators.com
YOU/WE/America WILL not solve this problem UNTIL social spending is eradicated. IT is a CANCER. B*itching about foreign aid which is INSIGNIFICANT and did NOT get us here solves nothing.
Now not to leave you hanging HERE is the solution and it has to be done in order.
1 Constitutional amendment for term limits. Current swamp creatures must be grandfathered or it will not pass.
2 Balanced budget amendment with cap on GDP of 18%. (4.5T budget) #1 is a prerequisite for even beginning to talk about #2 because the swamp creatures fear cutting off the "drug" to the masses.
3 repeal the 17th amendment. State legislature will put the kabosh on the Senate if the Senators are once again beholding to them instead of the masses.
4 Repeal the 16th amendment and replace with the Fair Tax. No more goosing gubment while we struggle to make ends meet. Want a tax cut when inflation is kicking your personal finances @ss then cut your personal spending, buy used and watch the swamp creatures run around on fire.
5 watch people go to work because they have to in order to eat. More workers = more GDP= more revenue