Enjoy the "Roosevelt legacy"

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 I'm reading "Rickenbacker, His own story" by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker Americas leading ace of WWI. As most of you know (or should know ) he was a race car driver before the war, after the war he designed and built his own car developing a successful car company, Saved Indy Speedway from the developers and launched its rise to the icon it has become, and in 1935 turned fledgling Eastern Airlines into the first unsubsidized PROFITABLE US airline, it remained the only airline to refuse Govt subsidies for decades while ALWAYS showing a profit.
Capt Eddie and FDR hated each other. Rickenbacker detested the slide toward socialism he saw start with Roosevelt's "New Deal".
Toward the end of the book I have come across an interesting paragraph.
"Over it all hangs the stultifying influence of big government and the big brother philosophy of Washington. This so called "security" nullifies the basic American values and the incentives that are actually stimulated by insecurity. The more that is done for the individual, the less he does for himself. Self reliance, ambition, and determination, all those natural human traits that were common in the pioneering days and that made this country great, are being softened, even eliminated in America today. "
These words were published in 1967, with BO we are today, reaping what was sown by our Grand Parents.