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Posted on 07/25/2007 8:16:23 PM PDT by secreg32
It is generally not worth it with trolls.
They aren’t here for ‘debate’, so it is best to ridicule them, and leave it at that.
Trust me, I’ve observed trolls of many flavors for awhile.
One theory is that someone was trying to enlist the good general, who was loyal enough to decline to engage in any shenanigans, precisely in order to justify the resultant and predictable crackdowns. In other words, a setup.
The good ones either died, or were lobotimized. I’ve gotten Kennedy scat thrown in my face occasionally. They are a total embarassment.
Well even better, we should ignore them. Personally, I thought that this person brought up an interesting discussion point. I try and remember to pray for our president to quit making bonehead decisions, but I don’t harbor ill will towards him. If his granddaddy was a jerk, it isn’t on our president.
Oh well, the pics are so darn funny :)
So who exactly owned George Bush’s Grandfather?
I smell reparations in the air!
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Did they find those dead aliens in Roswell yet??? |
There’s a small group of us that likes the irony of hijacking a troll’s thread.
After having had trolls slime up so many of our threads, it’s great stress relief.
One of the best examples was Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, which in large part mirrored the economic policies that Hitler was implementing to get Germany out of the Depression. That’s why it’s not a coincidence that the photograph of the man with the pointy helmet on the U.S. Social Security Administration’s website is not Thomas Jefferson but rather Otto von Bismarck, the “iron chancellor” of Germany. Social Security, which the Roosevelt administration enacted in the 1930s, had originated with Bismarck, who himself had gotten the idea from German socialists in the late 1800s. Social Security was also a key part of Hitler’s economic program.
Thus, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Hitler, as a National Socialist, also embraced such other governmental measures as public (i.e., government) schooling, national health care, public works, national service, a national youth corps, conscription, government spending to achieve “full employment,” government-business partnerships, wage and price controls, government regulation of private businesses, national highways, financial subsidies to private businesses, and a strong military-industrial complex to combat communism and terrorism.
Toland quotes American economist John Kenneth Galbraith:
Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy ... by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.
In fact, given that FDR and Hitler shared much of the same economic philosophy and were implementing many of the same economic policies, it’s not too surprising that Hitler sent the following letter to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Dodd on March 14, 1934:
The Reich chancellor requests Mr. Dodd to present his greetings to President Roosevelt. He congratulates the president upon his heroic effort in the interest of the American people. The president’s successful struggle against economic distress is being followed by the entire German people with interest and admiration. The Reich chancellor is in accord with the president that the virtues of sense of duty, readiness for sacrifice, and discipline must be the supreme rule of the whole nation. This moral demand, which the president is addressing to every single citizen, is only the quintessence of German philosophy of the state, expressed in the motto “The public weal before the private gain.”
Toland reminds us of the high esteem in which Hitler held President Roosevelt:
Hitler had genuine admiration for the decisive manner in which the President had taken over the reins of government. “I have sympathy for Mr. Roosevelt,” he told a correspondent of the New York Times two months later, “because he marches straight toward his objectives over Congress, lobbies and bureaucracy.” Hitler went on to note that he was the sole leader in Europe who expressed “understanding of the methods and motives of President Roosevelt.”
Hitler was not Roosevelt’s only admirer. Benito Mussolini, who had led Italy into fascism, an economic philosophy that called for government control over economic activity, including government-business partnerships, said that he admired FDR because he, like Mussolini, was a “social fascist.”
see ya!
These Ron Paul supporters are really starting to get on my nerves.
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