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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (63184)	11/12/2007 4:54:57 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 90947

I'm almost certain that his intentions where better than his results. I don't know exactly what his intentions where, but I think I would disagree with some of them, maybe even more than just a few, and perhaps strongly disagree; but I doubt almost anyone would want results as bad as what happened. About the only way he would have wanted results that bad would be if he was truly anti-American, as in if he wanted bad things to happen to America, and I think the chance of that approaches zero. Here is a less academic, and less narrowly focused examination of some of the policies that led to such a long deep depression. Great Myths of the Great Depression mackinac.org It wasn't just FDR. The fed acted foolishly. Congress passed Smoot-Hawley and made other poor decisions, Hoover signed Smoot-Hawley and made other mistakes. Hoover had done a great job in previous positions of leadership. FDR did a fine job as a war leader. But together both of them bungled economic policy on a scale not seen before or since in US history.