Amity Shlaes | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 93
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
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🗓️ 3 May 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Guaranteed income tends to break up families. |
| 0:02.1 | It makes it easier to be a single autonomous adult. |
| 0:04.8 | If a guaranteed income, you don't have to stay together. |
| 0:06.9 | Families need to depend on one another in order to be strong. |
| 0:12.2 | While Bernie Sanders might be out of the race, the socialist policies and ideas remain. |
| 0:16.7 | A gallop poll shows that 43% of Americans believe some form of socialism would be a good |
| 0:21.3 | thing compared to only 25% in 1942. |
| 0:25.0 | Today, more Americans associate socialism with social equality than government control. |
| 0:29.9 | Back in 1964, in the middle of the Cold War, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ, |
| 0:34.7 | created what's called the Great Society and put into place many of the social welfare |
| 0:38.4 | programs we have today, including Medicare, Medicaid, educational reform, sparking the beginning |
| 0:43.0 | of the wave of social democracy we see today. |
| 0:45.9 | With the economy currently in the biggest collapse since the Great Depression, we should |
| 0:49.2 | now be looking back at what worked, what didn't, and how we rebuild the economy. |
| 0:53.8 | Amitya Schays is a renowned historian |
| 0:55.4 | who has spent her career studying the effects of the Great Depression. Over the years, |
| 0:59.2 | she has written for everyone, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, National Review. She serves |
| 1:04.2 | as chair of the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, and she's the author of |
| 1:07.8 | four New York Times bestsellers. Her latest, Great Society, A New History, |
| 1:11.7 | is more relevant than ever. She offers new insights into why the social programs of the 1960s |
| 1:16.5 | did more harm than good and what challenges await us if we continue down this path. |
| 1:21.1 | Today, we'll talk about how the best parts of the Great Society are the ones that cost the least |
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