[P.O.E.]

"The problems we’re facing right now have been more than a decade in the making,”

Actually, more like 8 decades, if you want to peg FDR as the head honcho of this whole redistributive fiasco.

[markomalley]

Actually, more like 8 decades, if you want to peg FDR as the head honcho of this whole redistributive fiasco.

Maybe closer to a century...look at Wilson.

[jazzlite]

“The problems we’re facing right now have been more than a decade in the making,”
Actually, more like 8 decades, if you want to peg FDR as the head honcho of this whole redistributive fiasco. (Quote)

It was not only FDR but the people surrounding him who dreamed of reproducing Stalin’s Russia in the US..They probably would have, had WWII not started. To Roosevelt’s credit, he did recognize the
danger Hitler was to the world in time to save us. That war brought us out of the depression which was being prolonged through the Roosevelt policies. Read the excellent book, THE FORGOTTEN MAN, by Amity Shales for a very accurate account of those times.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

"The problems we’re facing right now have been more than a decade in the making,”

You are exactly right. Ironically, Obama isn't fully to blame for our economy. Ever since 1933, the State has expanede more and more and more. Democrats and Republicans expanded Welfare State programs and piled on on top of another. Or if you had a real conservative in there like Ronald Reagan, all he could really do was stop the growth but he wasn't able to really cut it back.

Obama is bad -- don't get me wrong -- but the death of the Welfare State has been coming for a long time. And now we are living it.