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Achievements of Liberalism in the U.S.

By Shoq, on September 25, 2009, at 4:28 am

All or most were strenuously resisted by conservatives and many Republicans.

  1. Interstate Highway System
    It wasn't Ike's idea. It was a liberal initiative begun in the '30s. Ike was a liberal.
  2. Almost all of our Labor Laws (and All Child Labor laws)
  3. The Marshall Plan
  4. Environmental Laws
  5. Freedom of Information Act
  6. Workplace safety laws
  7. Social Security
  8. The Space Program
  9. Securities Act of 1933 & Most banking Regulations
  10. The Peace Corps
  11. Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
  12. The Civil rights movement
  13. Fight against Nazis, Fascism and Totalitarianism
    Wilson, FDR ,Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy. All liberals
  14. The Development and Deployment for the Internet (DARPA/HPCA)
  15. The Tennessee Valley project
  16. Women's right to vote
  17. Universal Public Education
  18. National Weather Service
  19. National Science Foundation/Basic Scientific Research
  20. Product Labeling/Truth in Advertising Laws
  21. Public Health Service and CDC
  22. Morrill Land Grant Act (land for State public Universities)
  23. Rural Electrification
  24. Public Universities
  25. Bank Deposit Insurance
  26. Earned Income Tax Credit
  27. Family and Medical Leave Act
  28. Consumer Product Safety Commission
  29. Public Broadcasting
  30. Hoover Dam
  31. Pell Grants
  32. Americans With Disabilities Act
  33. State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
  34. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 – New (March 25th, 2010)

So before you knock liberalism, remember it's given you MOST of what Americans take for granted–and so many have died for.

Please take a moment to Retweet this list below. It's far past time that America once again learned to respect, admire, and celebrate it's liberal nature, traditions and achievements.

Shoq's List of Liberal Achievements in the United States — with BIG new 2010 addition. #p2 #tcot (Pls RT)
September 25th, 2009 | Category: Achievements, Liberalism, Politics
  • Lux
    Interstate highways omg - It's a government take over of the road system!!!!! Public TV?? FREE?? are you kidding..?. that's communism!

    Listen folks - public tv, public education, the internet - notice something many if not all of the items on this list have in common? We decided as people that a basic level of existence is necessary for ALL people if we want to advance as a country.

    Who would do such a thing? Who would think such a crazy thought? That we would all do better if everyone's basic necessities were met? A liberal - EVERY SINGLE TIME - Republican minds don't even go that direction.

    When anyone says 'That's a good idea.. it's so good we should make it available to everyone.' -

    That - is a liberal. - and without them.... well, for one, me and you wouldn't be chatting like this right now.
  • Interstate Highways: Ike = Republican. If you give some 30s liberal credit for the interstates, I'll give Nixon credit for ObamaCare
    So-So security: Ponzi scheme, bankrupt
    The Civil rights movement: Dems tried to kill it, failed
    Wilson: paved the way for Hitler's achievements
    Internet: I'll give you that one. Thanks, Al Gore.
    American Public Education system: FAIL, c.f. the rest of the industrialized world.
    Hoover Dam: You guys are taking credit for Herbert Hoover now? Cool!
  • beyond left
    @ john p: even if only half the list is true (which is an understatement), the progressive movement has championed most of the health, safety, labor, education and consumer initiatives that most people take for granted.
  • Great list. Don't forget that rural areas are getting high speed internet in the coming years too, because of another liberal project.
  • John P.
    Are you kidding me?

    The Hoover Dam, The Marshall Plan...?
    Fight against Nazis, Fascism and Totalitarianism...????
    Liberals who (nearly) exclusively populated the American Bund Party & Communist Party ranks fought Franklin Delano Roosevelt's support of England, Lend Lease, as well as, our entrance into WW II; with protests, fire bombs & riots; that is, until Mother Russia was attacked by Hitler's Armies.

    You're suggesting George C. Marshall, Eisenhower, Hoover & Wilson were Liberals?
    They absolutely detested left-wingers/ liberals?
    Truman you've also included as a liberal, our first Cold-War Era President????

    What part of Farcical do you not understand?

    They were Democrats, in no manner similar to the Liberal dominated Democratic Party of today, an in many instances were more conservative than their Republican counterparts.

    Who-ever posted this rubbish, if a journalist, should be ashamed of his/her - self for a complete distortion/convolution of historical fact/s an a total disregard for honesty and fairness in their reporting!

    I suppose it is just a sign of our times: Creative left - wing journalistic nonsense.. If you write/compose and print a story an you're a Liberal writer or journalist - it must be true! No surprise here;

    The Obama Administration flourishes in that form of journalist gymnastics!

    How about J. Edgar Hoover? CAN you figure out a way to claim he too was a liberal?
  • TiredOfThePhonies
    No, he just loved drag.
  • www.democratz.org
    If you want to bust the power of corporations over the legislative process go here http://DEMOCRATZ.ORG
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