Sentences with phrase «liberal program»
The first modern self - described liberal Democratic President was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who enacted the New Deal, a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 and a few that came later.
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Trudeau, in effect, unilaterally changed this convention, making «reproductive freedom» for the first time a nonnegotiable element of the federal Liberal program.
Many if not most of the great liberal programs since the New Deal have served to enhance the power and privilege (not to mention the prestige) of the new class; not surprisingly, its members are devoted to these programs.
Then you'd have to enact all those expensive liberal programs you say favor, and raise taxes through the roof.»
But when you look into his actual policies, you often find a list of orthodox liberal programs that no centrist or moderate conservative would have any reason to support.
From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, there was a bipartisan support for maintaining New Deal social liberal programs.
Plenty of economists were skeptical of the Liberal program, which involved consciously plunging the country into deficit.
But have we forgotten that in the critical aftermath of 1965 - 68, the thrust of the liberal program was so sharp and advanced that the regime itself changed?
Of course, the liberal program continued around the margins.
This was clearly a rejection of the liberal program, a rejection that became central to discussion among Protestants for several decades.
After all, if the churches paid taxes, the «liberals» in Washington would just use the money to pay for some liberal program, or something like that.
A liberal program he opposed had been stalled, and, officially, he wasn't the one who stalled it: It was a Republican from Nassau County who did so, by declaring he would not assent to a floor vote on a tax that requires his chamber's approval.
Jan. 19, 2007: Harper announces his «new» green energy program, which appears to be a re-tread of a Liberal program cancelled by the Conservatives last year.