[rockrr]

fdr....

I seem to recall an fdr somewhere...

Oh yea. Wasn't he the guy who tried to spend us out of the Great Depression (prolonging it several years in the process)? The one who allowed thousands of American servicemen to die so that he could allow Pearl Harbor to occur? The guy who singlehandedly gave us the largest heapin' helping of Socialism in America via his social programs (which dwarf the misguided Prescription Benefit debacle that we got with GW)? The guy who allowed Communists to operate in his cabinet? The same guy who attempted to stack the Supreme court in order to get his way?

Yea, I heard about fdr.

Never thought very much of him....

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

you sound like a liberal talking about Bush.

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"Never thought very much of him....

My sentiments exactly! As I recall his wife didn't think much of him as well - after she caught him in bed with her secretary. Never slept with him again.

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"Never thought very much of him...."

It appears that some folks on this thread don't like the facts you have presented! They want to stray off topic and attempt to divert the focus on fdr.

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Ah Yes, FDR -- thought so much of Charles Ponzi's scheme he set up an entire social program emulating it! Social Security is pure socialism!

[FreedomCalls]

The one who allowed thousands of American servicemen to die so that he could allow Pearl Harbor to occur?

Uh Oh. Not another one of them "LIHOP" people .... Ug.

[kiwiexpat]

You have seemed to embraced some dubious theories propogated by crackpot academics. FDR's trying to spend America out of the depression certainly did not prolong it. In fact, it was precisely the right thing to do. If anything, he didn't spend enough. It was only until 1942 that the US fully emerged from the depression. Why? Government spending in the form of military outlays acted as a huge prime pump for the economy. When a depression hits, the solution is to either boost government spending, cut taxes, or expand the money supply, or have both. (Reagan certainly did this in response to the grim recession of the early 1980s.) The Fed cut the money supply in 1929 and Hoover tried to balance the federal budget (the economic theory of the time told him it was the correct thing to do) and the combination of these two measures made the depression significantly worse. In the 1930s, we really didn't have a good handle on how the economy works; hence Roosevelt's experimentation and occasional blunder. It is not to far fetched to argue that Roosevelt essentially saved capitalism and the Constitution in this country.

There is no evidence that Roosevelt wanted Pearl Harbor to occur.