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To: youngidiot
FDR caused the great depression

The absolute power that FDR held was something to behold, so much so that he was able to cause the depression that began in 1929, three years before he took office.

/sarcasm

20 posted on 02/13/2011 8:37:54 AM PST by Michael.SF. (Going to Charlotte for the barbecue is like going to Minneapolis for the gumbo - John Reed)
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To: Michael.SF.
he was able to cause the depression that began in 1929, three years before he took office

Actually, a politician CAN cause economic mayham even before he takes office because investors can see what's coming.

The crash of '08 was due to the country foreseeing that McCain was losing and a socialist was about to take take the Presidency...I have no doubts about that.

3 years before? Well, I don't know...investors may have seen Roosevelt approaching on the horizon (he became Gov. of NYC one year before the crash...wouldn't be surpised if that was a large part of what made the crash inevitable)...or they may just have seen the spectre of a socialist army getting closer and closer.

28 posted on 02/13/2011 8:51:42 AM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: Michael.SF.

You idiot. He prolonged the economic problems with his crazy leftist policies.


68 posted on 02/13/2011 12:09:50 PM PST by youngidiot (Don't let the name fool ya, toots.)
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To: Michael.SF.
FDR took a depression and, using his great (grabbed) power, managed to program it into a GREAT depression.
80 posted on 02/16/2011 7:05:11 AM PST by rw4site (Little men want Big Government!)
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