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To: White Bear who wrote (11367)	8/26/2006 7:56:01 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (2) of 71588

Thanksalot, If you want to blame someone for the dependency of citizens on receiving dole from the federal government, you would have to look at the demorat icon FDR. He is the one that promised every American citizen security from the "cradle to the grave". At the insistence of Eleanor, he had the Social Security act passed through a Congress that worshiped the feet he could not even stand on. Much more wellfare was put into play be a string of demorat Presidents, with LBJ being a particular driving force. If you look carefully, you will see that both of those demorat Presidents used tragedies to run bills through the Congress while the citizens were vulnerable. With FDR, it was the Great Depression, when all of the things he tried to reverse the depression were first sent to Congress by Hoover that were defeated by a huge demorat slice of the seats of Congress. Even then, he did not stop the depression, but caused America's entry into WW2 by having the entire Pacific Fleet sail into Pearl Harbor against the advice of Admirals that knew better. With LBJ, it was the assasination of JFK, which threw the citizens into a frenzie of mourning.

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