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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: haqihana who wrote (2745)12/21/2005 12:33:55 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
FDR was a trust fund richie who was inculcated into the socialist dogma. He spent his Presidency instituting incremental pieces of it.

The country was suffering a predictable depression. The percentage of the population that were adults in the prime of their productivity fell precipitously at the end of the 1920's.

While all of the programs instituted to combat the depression were compassionate, they hardly helped to revive the economy. One of the important lessons from that experience is that the "self interested" tightening of import restrictions was counter productive.

The loosening of our porous borders have bought the US a couple of additional years before history repeats itself. We are likely to experience a depression or at a minimum a deep recession some time in the next decade.

Whether FDR was manipulating events to the degree conspiracy theorists suggest or not is not something I care to speculate on. He is the great icon for Democrats.

Democrats condone FDR's use of firing squads to execute German spies, but they want to investigate President Bush for using the same kind of Constitutional powers that Carter and Clinton exercised. They say that FDR was good, and that Preside Bush is bad when he does the same things.

"The broadcasts of some person, or persons, under the name of Tokyo Rose, were intended to make us fearful with a defeatist attitude, and unhappy with the government. That is, indeed, what the liberals are doing now."

Yep.
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