[frannie]

I have not checked and don't know where to find the facts but according to some statisticians our unemployment was less when Roosevelt became President that when we entered the war. Any one know where we can find unemployment figures?

I know that in 1936, Roosevelt's first reelection campaign, our deficit , not debt, was greater that our receipts.

Check the World Almanac. That is an easy way to GIVE citizens money in their pockets. Just print money and put them on the Government's payroll. I believe if you will check our unemployment was 25% at the beginning of the war.

I know for our family there was no change until about the fall of 1941, we were not on WPA, my mother washed and ironed, cleaned house, picked apples, they didn't hire teenagers for these jobs. In our town female school teachers were let go if they got married, the gas company in our town was going to let the lady in the office go. A married woman could not stay. I was going to be hired but then the war came.

I wonder what the unemployment figures if they had included women and young people in the stats.

[liberallarry]

All that's beside the point.

In 1932 the country was in deep trouble. There was genuine fear of revolution. Hoover was a smart guy who'd done his best...and it wasn't enough. No one knew what to do.

So Roosevelt improvised. He wasn't successful at restoring prosperity. NO ONE WAS. But he did succeed in changing the atmosphere, in giving the masses hope.

Many now criticize him for the supposed unintended, negative consequences of his policies. Who cares? I repeat who cares? If I'm trying to save someone's life is it really all that important if he later finds that I've permanently damaged his fingernails?