ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured commentary, Business First of Louisville quotes ALG Chairman Howie Rich:
By Howie Rich
History is written by many people, but those who write government school textbooks tend to hold disproportionate sway.
Sadly, their vision of America — which has driven conventional wisdom and popular opinion for decades — is built on many myths.
The biggest myth of them all?
That capitalism and our free market system caused the Great Depression — and that only a massive expansion of the federal government saved America from permanent economic ruin.