Posted on 03/14/2008 4:24:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Growing up, as I did, in the home of Russian Jewish immigrants, it figures that I’d start out thinking that, by all rights, FDR belonged on Mount Rushmore. But, all these years later, I have concluded that most of America’s woes can be traced back to his presidency, and that the best reason for his being up there along with Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington and Teddy Roosevelt, is that his head was already made of stone.
Although FDR is often, mistakenly, credited with bringing the Great Depression to an end, as Amity Shlaes made clear in her book, “The Forgotten Man,” his policies, which can best be described as Socialistic and anti-business, in reality prolonged America’s misery. The mere fact that he and his economic advisors thought it made perfect sense to keep raising taxes during the 1930s suggests that their primary motive wasn’t to lift the country out of its economic morass, but to take advantage of the situation to inflate the power of the federal government.
The end result of his 12 years in the White House is a hodge-podge of Washington bureaucracies and an economy that finds the federal government being far and away the single largest employer in the U.S. Couple that with his personal fondness for Joseph Stalin, his filling his administration and the State Department with like-minded idiots, and you have a perfect blueprint for disaster. For as Thomas Jefferson recognized, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.”
It should be no surprise that we now have tens of millions of Americans, not to mention several million illegal aliens, who seem to believe that the feds should guarantee their home loans, turn their schools into liberal indoctrination centers with a bias against religion and traditional values, and, for good measure, pay for their health insurance.
I’m not sure if they think that the government magically pays for all these things out of its own non-existent pocket or if they understand that all of this largesse is only made possible by taking it from others in the form of taxes. But it probably makes no difference to them, for, as some cynic once observed, when you rob Peter to pay Paul, don’t expect Paul to object too strenuously.
Recently, thanks to Michael Medved, I learned that the federal government spends well over eight billion dollars a year supplying over 30 million school children with “free” lunches and another two-and-a-half billion on “free” breakfasts. And what I, as a concerned citizen, would like to know is why they’re forcing the parents to be responsible for putting dinner on the table. Okay, I admit I’m joshing. But how long will it be before the leftists demand to know why the feds are shucking their obvious responsibility just because the sun has gone down? And just how long before FDR’s heirs in Washington launch their own version of the New Deal called Three Square Meals?
What I’d really like to know is: why haven’t public services removed those millions of kids from their homes? I mean, if parents can’t afford to give their children a couple of eggs or a banana and a bowl of cereal in the morning or an apple and a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch, what other essentials can’t they afford to provide for their kids? A bed? A blanket? Shoes? A tooth brush? A semi-automatic?
The truth is, if I were running for president as a Democrat, I wouldn’t be a piker like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Why stop with universal health care? I’d promise universal car, fire and life insurance. I’d promise four weeks paid vacation for every workingman and workingwoman in America, and eight weeks for every non-working man and woman. Why not? They have more time to kill and even greater incentive to get out to the polls on election day. On top of all that, I’d promise to give any person who voted for me $5,000, a lifetime supply of Viagra and free lottery tickets, besides.
Hey, I’m a Democrat! I can afford to be generous. It’s not my money, after all. It’s yours.
The 20th century produced the worst presidents in America’s history.
Amnity Shales has nailed the truth about that commie FDR: The mere fact that he and his economic advisors thought it made perfect sense to keep raising taxes during the 1930s suggests that their primary motive wasn’t to lift the country out of its economic morass, but to take advantage of the situation to inflate the power of the federal government.
Peanut butter? Are you nuts? (pun intended) Don't you know the poison that peanut butter is? God forbid you send your child to school with a peanut butter cracker and he, wanting to sit with his best friend (These are five year olds I'm talking about), goes and sits with him at the "product table".
"Product table" meaning anything made with eggs or peanuts is forbidden.
The school marm then sends you a letter requesting that you not send your child to school with any "product" foods for lunch or snack until "you can prove that Johnny will not go and sit at the 'product table' again".
Uhhhh.... How does one "prove" that?
Why doesn't she (the school marm) make sure little Johnny doesn't go sit at the table?
Or, if the PBJ sandwich is such a deadly force, why arent't the non-"product" children given a safe room to go and eat far away from those "product" eaters?
By the way, none of these snacks or lunches are free. Someone else might be getting a “free lunch” off of my taxes but Johnny isn’t.
“I’d promise universal car, fire and life insurance. I’d promise four weeks paid vacation for every workingman and workingwoman in America, and eight weeks for every non-working man and woman. Why not?”
It would resonate. I’m reminding of an old democrat friend who was all in favor of universal health care. Following the California earthquakes, this democrat was all in favor of national universal earthquake insurance. This person lived on a fault in California and couldn’t get insurance so the solution was to ‘share the risk’.
When it was pointed out that one can’t share the risk of living on a fault line in California with a person living in Illinois, you can only share the costs, this person decided what we really needed was National Universal Homeowners Natural Disaster Insurance for Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Tornados, Floods, etc. After all, one can’t be held responsible for buying a house on a fault line or in a flood plain.
Ping for later
Many of his new deal initiatives were shot down by the SCOTUS at the time, he campaigned to have the conservative members of the court impeached (he failed); there are no new plays in the liberal book today. After he appointed new judges his initiatives were ruled constitutional. But he was a wartime president during a hugely popular war, that is how history portrays him, therefor everything he did is cast through that shade of benign bias.
A liberal is never satisfied. He is like a train line. Socialist policies are ( such as FDR's) are merely stops along the journey. The final destination is MARXISM.
Marxism is freedom's MOST SERIOUS AND DANGEROUS ENEMY!
The Marxists in our nation have infiltrated our legislatures, all government bureaucracies, the mainstream media, all the arts, and every level of education. Of all, our schools and universities are their most important weapon. Unfortunately the Marxists have 3 million government teacher ( aka: “Useful Idiots”) running one of the most powerful unions in the world.
Why are conservatives ( Christian and non-Christian) asleep? They don't even recognize the enemy. They continue to think that liberalism is somehow different than Marxism. They fail to see that goals of the liberal and fully “out of the closet” Marxist are the same. They continue to send their children to the government school Marxist madrassas!
Conservatives could do several things immediately that would help de-fang the Marxists:
1) They should start calling liberalism what it is: Marxism.
2) Get their own children OUT of the government schools. Immediately!
3) Refuse to send their children to any university that is Marxist dominated.
4) Never again! Never give a dime to a college or university endowment that is Marxist dominated. NEVER!
5) If colleges and universities can have endowments in the BILLIONS then conservatives ( Christian and non-Christian) should do the same for K-12 education. They should start private foundations that would give private vouchers to students attending **conservative** private schools. These foundations could also give grants to conservative teachers who will set up small and inexpensive mini-schools, micro-schools, one room school houses, virtual schools, tutoring centers, and homeschool cooperatives. They should also break the government school monopoly on team sports by sponsoring sports leagues.
6) Join with other conservatives to SHUT DOWN every government school in the nation! PERMANENTLY!
7) Use the same tactic as the Marxists are using. Train up a generation of youth fully prepared to defend freedom when they enter the university classroom, and finally to take their places in government, the media, the arts, the sciences, and education.
We don't have much time left, but we still could win this! We MUST act NOW!
Everything he did is cast through the prism of the Marxists that control the mainstream media and our educational system ( K-12 and university).
Their primary motive was and is Marxism.
Remember a liberal is NEVER satisfied. Any socialist scheme is merely one more train stop on the train line to their ultimate goal: Marxism!
ALL liberals are Marxists (even if they don't know it!) Scratch a liberal and under his thin skin is a socialist. Dig a little deeper and you will soon find the Marxist nuclear fuel rods that drive everything he says and does.
Corollary: ALL Marxists lie!
Conservatives will not win this philosophical, cultural, and even religious war unless we start calling the enemy who they are and what it is: Marxists and Marxism!
No Free Lunch... no kidding. But I guess I must have been one of the few in my generation to hear his parents tell him that all of his growing up years.
Agree 100%! Conservatives will not win this philosophical, cultural, and even religious war unless we start calling the enemy who they are and what it is: Marxists and Marxism!
>>The 20th century produced the worst presidents in America’s history.
I am POSITIVE that you are not including two of our best - Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
Conservatives should get their kids out today!
Conservatives should start private scholarship foundations to give private vouchers to kids, and grants to conservative teachers.
They should join with their conservative neighbors to organize a MASSIVE school tax revolt with the goal to close every government school in the nation down!
So by your logic, President Reagan was on of the worst Presidents? Be prepared to get flamed and rightly so
The ones I’ve talked to have the mindset that whatever the gov’t representatives do is OK because the people consented to let them do it by electing them.
The “three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner options” analogy fails to penetrate their shield of ignorance. See tagline.
Because,
the working principal behind liberalism is
“someone craps their pants and we ALL have to wear diapers”
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