Posted on 08/12/2005 3:25:54 PM PDT by hang 'em
FDR's destruction of the constitution via intimidating SCOTUS, and the sad result, has been forgotten already?
America dodged a bullet when that three term socialist died!
Klinton and Kartuh could never have worked their evil if FDR had not opened the way for them.
Gerald Ford. Never would have had Carter with the king of the RINO's in power.
Clinton was quite ept, in terms of scratching the backs of those who had scratched his.
Sorry, but for about the last decade now I find myself in agreement with Milton Friedman and his economic theories.
Good Post.
Funny, I never heard about Hoot Smalley "causing" the great depresssion until the 1980's when the "no borders/no trade barriers" fanatics started to crank out their propaganda. Given the small percentage of US GNP that was involved in foreign trade in the 1930s it wasn't important.
I'd like someone to tell me how foriegn trade increased from 1938 to 1948. I don't think it was a lot, even though we were still in the depression in 1938, and out of it in 1948.
If trade barriers started depressions, why did Japan become rich? They have never believed in "free trade".
"He was the worst, ending the era of limited, Constitutional govermnent."
I think I understand your point, but would you get rid of social security, the SEC, the minimum wage, the national park service, and Federal Aid for bridges/roads/Highways, etc?
Sumter was a U.S. fort build on territory deeded to it by the legislature of the state of South Carolina. What, exactly, caused it to automatically become 'sovereign confederate territory' without treaty or compensation?
WTF does that have to do with it?
Don't be an idiot.
And when Jefferson Davis and the confederate congress authorized raising an army of 100,000 men a month before the attack on Sumter then what were they for? The start of the war was the bombardment of Sumter, the moment when the south made it clear that they were not, and had never been interested in a peaceful solution.
How did they do that?
That was actually your second. Your first post was to congressmanbillybob back in jan 2003. You have got to be the quietest FReeper in history.
Thanks. Yes I guess you're right. Maybe the media keeps that myth floating to make FDR seem even more compassionate. The evil republican sat back on his laurels while the kind democrat did everything to save the poor starving children. See how bad the media is? And I fell for it! :) I am going to go stand in the corner now.
After OBL was chased into Pakistan:
A) We stopped pursuing him
B) We chose to attack a nation two countries west of Pakistan and have proceeded to direct all efforts there for the last two years+ (for no believable reason!).
What possible reason could he have for ignoring him?
Historians will be asking that question for the next fifty years.
Ulysses S. Grant.
FDR...he was too sick to lead and too greedy to give up power, resulting in his decision to let the USSR kill millions and enslave other millions during 40 years of Communist tyranny. Domestically, he started the dependency on government that has enslaved millions of our own citizens and kept them from being all they could be. He was an evil despot....
I suggest you go back and read Marx. Marx was not a free trader, he was the antithesis of a free trader.
"[The Bourgeoisie] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."
"The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.
By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying."
Karl Marx
Frederick Engels
The Communist Manifesto
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