Posted on 09/15/2014 11:42:18 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Ken Burns is at it again. The Left’s favorite propagandist has put together a 7 part series on the two Roosevelt presidents. Leaving aside what he is likely to show about Teddy Roosevelt, without seeing a minute of this presentation I’ll go out on a short strong limb and guess what will not be shown about Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Even a very superficial study of FDR shows he was a consummate phony. He preached “There is nothing to fear but fear itself,” but everything he did was presented as a fearful crisis that could only be handled by giving him the power of a king. He was indeed the worst kind of demagogue.
From the first days of his reign as king of America FDR acted like a tyrannical monarch. Without Constitutional power to do so he closed banks and confiscated personally owned gold. This destroyed the lives of Americans who were holding gold for their retirement.
He ordered farmers to produce less food which forced starvation and disease on millions of innocent Americans and wiped away the livelihoods of millions of farmers.
Because he knew better, FDR forced religious Jews (the Schecter brothers) to reduce the kosher quality of the meat they sold. They later beat him in the Supreme Court.
To combat the Great Depression, he turned our economy over to the fraudulent English economist John Maynard Keynes who stupidly maintained that to get America working again prices would have to rise. This fool did everything he could to force the price of consumer goods upward in the ridiculous belief that higher prices would yield greater profits to manufactures who would then in turn have more money to hire new workers. It didn’t occur to either FDR or Keynes that if the prices were too high...
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So you think we’d have been better off if there was a “Confederate States of America”?
Yeah, but lets face it, replace “Muslim” for “japanese”. If an American politician suggested that today, many on this site would be cheering from the rafters.
Thats an interesting story, but why would FDR tell Murrow that he had prior knowledge of the attack? What would be the point?
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