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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (454560)	9/8/2003 12:46:03 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Oh, poor little FDR... I guess WW2 "just happened" to him... He was a powerless little "victim" of history, right? After all, he was only PRESIDENT OF THE FREAKIN' U.S. for two whole terms at that point, so he couldn't have done anything to prevent it from happening, right??? A lot of good his tax increases did! He blew a hole in the deficit larger than this country has ever seen! As for the economy, FDR's policies made it WORSE! We had another severe depression in 1937-1938 after all of his "New Deal" policies were implemented and were supposed to make things better. In fact, the "Great Depression" dragged on for an entire decade because FDR's schemes prevented the economy from recovering on its own. Doesn't Bush get any credit for the fact that the recession (after the crash of the stock bubble) turned out to be "mild and shallow" instead of the decade-long disaster of the 1930's?