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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (833838)	2/2/2015 11:10:05 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579339

There's just so many bad things FDR did. We're lucky he died before the war was won.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (833838)	2/2/2015 11:39:58 AM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 dave rose Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579339

>> I take off points cuz he tried to balance the budget in '37, and caused a recession, too. I take off points because he put all the Japanese in relocation camps. Despite all that, he's still one of the top 3 presidents. He was a great wartime president. And he recognized that something had to be done for people who devastated by the depression. But his economic policy was atrocious and managed to prolong the depression for years, just as Obama's policy has prolonged this little recession we have been in, somehow managing to drag it out for what will, in the end, be the full eight years of his two terms. I used to think presidents had little control over the economy. But the truth is one who doesn't understand basic economics can be an extremely destructive force. There isn't much a president can do to actually turn an economy around, but he needs to stay out of the way and let it rebound on its own. FDR got in the way. Obama got in the way. And the result was an immense amount of human suffering that need not have happened.