Dick Cheney: Son of the New Deal

[marmar]

from Consortium News:



Dick Cheney: Son of the New Deal
September 16, 2011

Exclusive: Dick Cheney is an inspiration to right-wing Republicans set on dismantling the New Deal and getting rid of as many government jobs as possible. But Cheney’s memoir traces his success in life back to the security created by the federal programs of Franklin Roosevelt, writes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry


Former Vice President Dick Cheney would agree that he is about as right-wing as an American politician can be, openly hostile to the federal government’s intervention in society except perhaps for protections on gay rights, an issue that affects his family.

But one surprise from his memoir, In My Time, is that Cheney recognizes that his personal success was made possible by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and the fact that Cheney’s father managed to land a steady job with the federal government.

“I’ve often reflected on how different was the utterly stable environment he provided for his family and wondered if because of that I have been able to take risks, to change directions, and to leave one career path for another with hardly a second thought,” Cheney writes.

In that sense, Cheney’s self-assuredness may be as much a product of the New Deal as the many bridges, dams and other public works that Roosevelt commissioned in the 1930s to get Americans back to work. By contrast, the insecurity that afflicted Cheney’s father was a byproduct of the vicissitudes from laissez-faire capitalism. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/09/16/dick-cheney-son-of-the-new-deal/

[rfranklin]

1. Cheney's "private sector" success was also fueled by the government...

As one poster notes at the link, Halliburton suckled on the "gubmint" teat and made Cheney a very wealthy man who then claimed he never depened on government for his success.

[geckosfeet]

2. Classic sense of entitlement from the war criminal.