Posted on 02/13/2011 8:06:53 AM PST by wizkid
Reporting from Dunwoody, Ga. For more than half a century, biographers have treated Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Rushmore-like reverence, celebrating the nation's 32nd president as a colossus who eased the agony of the Great Depression and saved democracy from Nazi Germany.
Which never sat right with historian Burton Folsom Jr.
Growing up in Nebraska, Folsom remembers, his dad, a savings and loan executive, griped about high taxes and Roosevelt's voracious ambition. FDR was dead, but his legacy deficit spending, an activist federal government, an expansive social safety net lived on.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Agreed.
I am in no way defending Roosevelt's actions during his first two terms. His policies were a disaster for the country and caused the second depression of the late 30's after a recovery period had started.
My issue with the original poster was the statement that FDR "caused the depression". That is not a correct statement, even if we are now quibbling over "depression" vs. "great depression". Either way it is termed, it started in 1929.
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