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To: bentway who wrote (362329)	12/11/2007 10:15:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572003

None of that surprises me. Only in the last few months have I really begun to understand what was at stake during the Depression. The wealthy were really scared because for the first time the American worker was not under their thumb. So one of their own, FDR, came into power and he made sure a little more of the wealth got down to the lower classes." According to Howard Zinn in "The People's History of the United States", FDR was also forced into enacting programs with socialistic features, like Social Security, to co-opt the strong socialistic and communist forces in America at the time. He didn't have any other way to explain how the communists were able to provide for THEIR downtrodden and elderly while WE could not. In the book, Zinn, who seems to be somewhat of a socialist himself, seems disappointed that FDR was able to tamp down these forces. It's a fascinating perspective and read.