[nyconse]

Read up on some history...Roosevelt did not worsen the depression-revisionist history. Unemployment improved despite the fact that figures for that time do not show the government employment programs such as ccc and other programs...33 was the worst year...Roosevelt became president in March of 33...google it...look at any graph. In fact the only time unemployment went up during the 30’s was when Roosevelt cut spending in 36 and balanced the budget...caused a spike in unemployment...but didn’t reach the levels of 33. Why do you think Roosevelt got elected four times if Hoover was so much better?...then there is the little matter of Hoover ordering the Army to fire upon former US soldiers who had come to Washington for the bonus money in 32...Patton and McArthur as was Eisenhower were involved...Read about it if you don’t believe me (bonus march).

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’m sorry, but we REALLY don’t see eye to eye on this. FDR didn’t resolve the Depression by his policies. He exacerbated and proliferated it well beyond Hoover. By all accounts, some historians and economists concluded it took until Eisenhower to resolve aspects of it. Hoover had a bad situation, FDR made it worse and created generations of government dependency and programs that have grown to obscene proportions that will bankrupt us (now to be outdone by the False Messiah). Take away WW2, and FDR was one of our worst Presidents, bar none. He was no savior, and was the architect of the modern welfare state.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It appears that there is more than a little controversy about the ‘Bonus March’. As far as I have been able to check, the only gunfire came from DC Police, who had been set upon by marchers throwing bricks at them. The police gunfire killed two marchers. The army, under the command of Douglas MacArthur, and led by Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton, charged the marchers, with bayonets, sabers, and tear gas, and one infant died from the tear gas. What people were outraged about was the army's attack on and burning of the squatters camp of the marchers, after MacArthur gave the marchers a couple of hours to evacuate.

[Impy]

“Why do you think Roosevelt got elected four times if Hoover was so much better?..”

Hoover’s failing was starting the new deal. FDR campaigned on cutting spending in 1932 (massive lie).

He caused the recession of 1937.