Posted on 03/17/2005 8:05:25 AM PST by ken21
We could have and should have. WWI was a waste of American blood and treasure in a war we had no business being in.
We had a real motive for being in WWII - fighting an ideology that had designs on America and which was incompatible with the American way of life and our national interests.
Because of the debacle that was WWI, Americans were extremely averse to going to war in Europe again and allowed a bad situation over there to fester until it was almost uncontrollable.
". . . on the premise of being the only one able to keep us out of the war."
Kind of like Johnson's premise of being the only one able to get us out of Vietnam?
Coolidge and his Secretary of Commerce and subsequent replacement, Hoover, were vilified for "doing nothing to stop the Depression." What a bunch of bile. Roosevelt is the one to blame for making it worse, all the while lying to the American people about his mistresses and health condition.
More Americans need to realize how great a President Calvin Coolidge was. He was so dead set against federal involvement that he refused to send Federal money to states affected by natural disasters. He said it was wrong from someone from one state to fund the needs of folks from another state.
Coolidge was a true Federalist and was so revered by Reagan, that Reagan put a portrait of him up in the White House. Bush should look to Coolidge again on cutting worthless spending that is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Show me some facts and make your case if you can. I look at the policy of the New Deal (socialism) and the character (and politics) of FDR's advisors and say otherwise.
Read it last year. It made me very angry for a while. The unusual times and the failure of Herbert Hoover to comprehend them helped usher in FDR and all of his golden boys trying their out their pet economic theories.
I didn't read MODERN TIMES..........I consumed it! [*LOL*]
Thanks! I'll have to check that one out.
Well, yes.... If 20th Century American history teaches us anything, it's that it takes really smart people to make really big mistakes.
What is that fluttering sound, airborne porcines????
"Mr. Roosevelt is gonna save us all."
Why the ping?
I thought I'd give you a chance to defend FDR and the New Deal Commerce Clause.
Every history textbook in US schools idolizes FDR. Our children are being propagandized to accept the federal government as Savior.
Why did it take them so long!
My parents told me that before I started school in the late 30s.
FDR was the worst President this country ever had.
Unless you got a photo of a paystub or something (in which case, please share).
"He did nothing to end the Depression."
He sure did, he negotiated the bombing of Pearl Harbor and got us into war. Without the attack on Pearl the american people wouldn't allow us to enter the war in europe. His plan succeded, sorry to say.
"Well it is accurate to say that FDR could walk on water just as easily as he could walk on dry land."
Only because someone told him where the rocks were!
self ping for later reading
This study is not politically correct. These guys are in big trouble. I hope they have tenure.
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