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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (2751)	12/21/2005 6:19:55 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

"The main reason FDR was elected, was because he promised the end of prohibition." I had not heard that before. My grandparents had plenty of booze acquired legally before Prohibition, but they might have voted for him anyway if he promised that. "the programs he started gave men ditch digging type of work with barely enough in wages to be enough for a hot meal for a family..." Low wages is better than no wages. Either way the government was going into debt when most citizens couldn't borrow. "The worst thing he did was promise security from the cradle to the grave, ergo the Social Security Act, at the insistence of Eleanor. That removed the intention of citizens to plan for their own future, and made them pawns of the government." Yes, I also had not heard that Elanor was behind SS. 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.