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To: ncountylee

They forgot about Herby Hoover signing protectionist legislation that greatly contributed to the severity and length of the Great Depression. In fact Herby and Franklin Roosevelt should get a joint award for making the depression worst through their meddling.


31 posted on 02/18/2006 12:37:54 PM PST by Busywhiskers ("...moral principle, the sine qua non of an orderly society." --Judge Edith H. Jones)
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To: Busywhiskers
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Truman's loss of China to the Communists or his firing of MacArthur during the Korean War when we were on our way to undoing this mistake.

The lunacy of these historians show by merely mentioning Jefferson and Madison. Jefferson's sins, whatever they were, were more than covered by the fact that he alone more than tripled the size of American Territory by jumping on an opportunity. Madison, despite blunders in the early days of the War of 1812, went on to unify a young nation and close a continent to further European encroachment.

Also conspicuously absent from this list is FDR's transforming what begin as a normal cyclical economic downturn into a decade-long depression as an excuse to grow government.

43 posted on 02/18/2006 12:56:58 PM PST by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: Busywhiskers
They forgot about Herby Hoover signing protectionist legislation that greatly contributed to the severity and length of the Great Depression. In fact Herby and Franklin Roosevelt should get a joint award for making the depression worst through their meddling.

Hoover triggered the Great Depression by telling the Federal Reserve to take actions that caused the stock market crash. His wage supports caused massive unemployment. What makes Hoover so bad is that those actions were unofficial. That way he could maintain that he was was a typical hands-off Republican president. His persona as an engineer ended up being disastrous for a president. The presidency was his first elected office.

97 posted on 02/18/2006 2:03:39 PM PST by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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