It's not that FDR prolonged the depression. It's just that, like the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, he used pointy-headed academicians who had no real-world experience to theorize us out of the doldrums. And he had an even MORE fawning press corps to tell the unwashed masses how brilliant he was.
Been reading "A Patriot's History of the US" by Larry Schweikert, and the parallels between BHO's policies and those of FDR are downright scary.
“Unfortunately most people don’t accept our analysis that FDR prolonged the depression.
It’s not that FDR prolonged the depression. It’s just that, like the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, he used pointy-headed academicians who had no real-world experience to theorize us out of the doldrums.”
It is true that FDR was a disaster economically. However, he did admit many times to the public that he didnt know what he was doing with his economic programs, and that he was just trying to do as many things as he could think of, knowing that lots of things he was doing was not going to work. He said many times he is going to try something, and if it doesnt work then he will try again. I give credit to FDR for at least admitting that he was just guessing about what to do with the Great Depression. Lots of people back then and even today dont know what to do to keep us out of economic depressions. Even some of today’s economists don’t know what they are talking about.
OTOH, FDR handled WW2 brilliantly! The more I study WW2 the more credit I have to give FDR for making all the right decisions, for choosing people like Halsey, McAurther, and Eisenhower for his military leaders, for building an alliance with England and Russia to effectively squeeze germany, invading Europe via Normandy so that the Soviets would not take over Europe, the A-bomb, the way FDR created mind-numbing war time production. From Normandy to V-E Day it took FDR less than a year to defeat Hitler. Most people dont realize that WW2 could have easily been lost.
FDR was the last president to get a Congressional declaration to go to war, the last president to earnestly completely fight to win, and the last American President to win a war.