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→What do you think of this?: subversion in the New Deal and Agricultural Dept.
*Rob, one needs to be careful of reading too much into history books. The facts are the facts, but assigning motivations are iffy at best. As I am sure Andy can tell you, rarely do politicians, and their appointees look to the future about anything, or have much concept of their actions impacting the future, for good or bad, when they are making political appointments. Connections made to things down the road are suspect, because later events might happen because "X" appointed "Y", it is almost always happenstance, sorry to report. I agree, Andy, the ariticle, sans the suspect citations, and the mostly gossipy account, short account of his death, was mainly ok. I didn't have a problem with your additions, and am in process of reorganizing many things, adding the bullets, etc. --~ [[User:TK|TerryK]] <sup>[[User_talk:TK|MyTalk]]</sup> 23:44, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
*Rob, one needs to be careful of reading too much into history books. The facts are the facts, but assigning motivations are iffy at best. As I am sure Andy can tell you, rarely do politicians, and their appointees look to the future about anything, or have much concept of their actions impacting the future, for good or bad, when they are making political appointments. Connections made to things down the road are suspect, because later events might happen because "X" appointed "Y", it is almost always happenstance, sorry to report. I agree, Andy, the ariticle, sans the suspect citations, and the mostly gossipy account, short account of his death, was mainly ok. I didn't have a problem with your additions, and am in process of reorganizing many things, adding the bullets, etc. --~ [[User:TK|TerryK]] <sup>[[User_talk:TK|MyTalk]]</sup> 23:44, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
::What happened in the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) is particularly revealing. It was through the Dept of Agriculture that [[CPUSA]] members first entered government employment in [[New Deal]] programs-- as early as 1933, i.e. even before reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the USSR. By revealing I mean this, agricultural set asides were one of the first New Deal "releif" efforts, i.e. paying a landowner ''not'' to farm his land. [[Sharecropper]]s in Mississippi who did not own the land '''''where''''' employed and farming from the `1929-1933 period. Only ''after'' passage of "relief" efforts, i.e. intended to "help" the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden, did poor B lack sharcroppers become homeless and unemployment as a result of passage of the agricultural set asides in the AAA Act.
::This wasn't just an unitended consequence; this was active subversion to build a political coalition. And the poor sharecroppers oppressors cloaked themselves as their saviors. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 23:59, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
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