American Thinker
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Frida Ghitis : The Cold War was the ideological framework of the Cold War .
She says the U.S. was the first government in history dedicated to the idea of the individual being more worthy of protection than the State .
The power to confiscate wealth from individual citizens in order to provide for other citizens was, quite purposefully, not enumerated in the Constitution as a power of government.
Ghitis says the government could not yet redistribute wealth to those whom the government has determined “need” more than the citizens.
The Supreme Court seemed all set to strike the Social Security Act down in 1937 , when FDR held a gun to the Court ’s head by threatening to pack the Court with six new judges who would just uphold New Deal legislation without regard to the limitations of that pesky Constitution .
LBJ introduced eight new federal welfare programs in his quest to reinvent America as a redistributive utopia.
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