I see professor Schaff has mentioned this article in today's Wall Street Journal which is getting attention around the blogosphere. Note that the old New Dealer Alvin Hansen is mentioned. He was a famous Keynesian economist and FDR advisor and was from Viborg, South Dakota! Viborg is known for being a Danish settlement. Hansen was a Yankton College grad (didn't Lyle Alzado go there too?) who ended up at Harvard. Excerpt:
The notion that liberalism is fundamentally indecipherable was voiced frequently during the 1930s, when liberals absolutely dominated American politics. ... In 1940 another New Dealer, the economist Alvin Hansen, admitted, "I really do not know what the basic principle of the New Deal is. I know from my experience in the government that there are as many conflicting opinions among the people in Washington as we have in the country at large."
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