That was most interesting, thank you for posting it!
Steel Seizure case too, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952). Different president (Truman), but it was a government seizure of private property.
A very interesting chapter in history. Unfortunately those who would actually gain from reading it, e.g. the blue collar union types with dem on the brain, probably wouldn’t make it past the first paragraph.
FDR’s failed entitlement polices gave this county the second worst 15 years of its history. FDR was scum, plain and simple.
Thanks for posting this. The link to a FR article in my tagline is from a booklet written in 1939 about FDR and the New Deal. Somewhere in there is a line about somebody telling FDR that he should add to a speech something about how he should make it clear that he sees some policy as helping business; and not wishing for the government to take over companies. FDR replied something like “Leave the speech as it is, we want to keep our options open.”
Read about what he did to the tire company in Indianapolis BEFORE the war.
PS you only THINK you are pissed now.
I watched the recent Ken Burns series on the Roosevelts. It was a fawning, loving look. However, one thing it didn’t seem to pull inches about was both TR and FDRs willingness to do whatever they wanted without regard for the constitution. In fact I was unaware of how much it started with TR.
Excellent post, well worth the read! Thanks!
I don’t disagree that FDR was an awful President but lets be fair the rot started under Lincoln.
Ping.
As mentioned in related threads, with the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate labor wages. This is evidenced by the following excerpt.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Also, as I questioned in a related thread, what is the scope of the Seattle Socialist Group concerning the $15 minimum wage? For the city? For the state?
If only a local minimum wage then let the city exercise its 10th Amendment power to establish minimum wage. Or impliment minimum way statewide. And if Washington State voters don't like the trail-blazing minimum wage, but then sit on their hands and don't work with their local government reps to do something about it, then let Social Darwinism do its job. We can always delete Seattle and / or Washington State from the maps and remove a star from the flag. There is no constitutional protection from stupidity.
Socialist justice Louis Brandeis had indicated that the states are laboratories of democracy.
Laboratories of democracy
Having grown up durring his Presidency I was taught to hate FDR from the time I could sit in a high chair.
Meal time was a lesson in government and history, 7 days a week!
Lincoln was tyrannical
Wilson was tyrannical
FDR was tyrannical
Nixon/LBJ were tyrannical
Bush was tyrannical
Obama is tyrannical
They all asked for, and got, more executive power. In all cases it was claimed that this increased power was necessary to guarantee a win. That power was supposed to be returned to the legislature or the states when the war was won, but never was.
Republicans and Democrats, liberals and so-called conservatives have all conspired to give more-and-more power to the executive branch and more-and-more power to the feds.
Fear leads to insecurity leads to Big Government. But at least we're getting what most of us are asking for. The few benighted souls who still care about freedom and subsidiarity are just going to have to stop whining and get with the program.
FDR was a sleazy tyrant and another thing that irks me about him is that he was so power hungry as to go beyond the traditional 2 terms. I’m glad he died when he did and didn’t go on for a 5th term.....
Yep,
I’m reading “Mao: The Unknown Story”.
Up to 1953 (it covers from before his birth to his death).
Seeing many similarities with bo and mrs. bo.
Very interesting, thanks for posting.
My eyes were opened to FDR many years ago, in part by a matter of fact comment by British journalist Alistair Cooke, who summed up the New Deal as American’s period of National Socialism.