You're right. One thing we need to know is who started it. That would be Ted Turner who was a 1960s socialist and later an UN supporting globalist. Believe it or not there was a brief moment the UN almost went broke until Turner 'donated' 1 billion dollars to basically bail them out.
Rogers supported FDR's New Deal and complained government wasn't doing enough to feed people during the depression and beyond tells us everything we need to know.