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To: Road Walker who wrote (510057)	9/3/2009 12:29:24 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577146

Oh, how times have changed. A few short years ago you guys were whining about Bush being a "divider not a uniter". What a load of crap. This was not true of Franklin Roosevelt and the Democratic Congresses that enacted the New Deal. With the exception of the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 (which gave the president authority to close the nation’s banks and which passed the House of Representatives unanimously), the principal legislative innovations of the 1930s were enacted over the vigorous opposition of a deeply entrenched minority. Majority rule, as Roosevelt saw it, did not require his opponents’ permission. Smith's biography of FDR is a great one that everyone should read. And the statement is obviously exactly right. FDR didn't give a crap what the other side thought, he was going to do what he though had to be done. And look at the mess. Just look at it. Social security, a $12.5 Trillion albatross around the necks of the American people. Unemployment compensation, now an out of control government giveaway. Unions are now so powerful they put their OWN industries into bankruptcy. FDR's economic policy extended a depression that might have lasted a few years into more than a decade. I believe in FDR's handling of foreign policy (although, some might quarrel with the handling of Japanese Americans). No ideologue here. But his economic policy was an absolute tragedy for the country that continues to threaten our country's future today. OBAMA IS NO FDR. Not even close. But more importantly, we can see that FDR's decisions to run roughshod over his opposition -- simply because he COULD -- have resulted in long-term, lasting consequences that have proven to be disastrous, one after another, for the ensuing 75 years. I cannot imagine what further proof we need of the problems with unconstrained partisanship.