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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (468516)	4/2/2009 9:30:50 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578564

The market doubled during FDR's first year and quadrupled during his first term. That would've made me feel good. "Feeling good", unfortunately, isn't what it is about. Sometimes nations have to endure terrific pain to give them strength and character. If it was about feeling good, they should merely inject us all with cocaine. I can assure you that the people who lost family on the Pacific islands and Europe during WWII didn't "feel good" about what happened. Great Britain began a program some 60 years ago designed to make everyone "feel good". They're flat assed broke. Broker than the US is by a mile. Unfortunately, the politicians on the Left have figured out if they make people "feel good", job performance just doesn't matter. Ten pointed out FDR, JFK, and Clinton, all of whom were fair-to-downright lousy at their job performance (FDR's WWII performance excepted) but made Americans "feel good". It just isn't a proper metric.