Posted on 07/25/2011 3:41:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Here’s another one:
FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
By comparison to both The Won and his idol, Karl Marx? Maybe he was.
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Paranoia is the key point here, because the paranoiac “lives” by a set of Soviet like “standards” which is based in keeping the means going even after accessing power. This is why there is no end that justifies the means, ever, because once the end is attained, in order to keep the end, the means must still be applied, and hence paranoia.
To ignore the paranoia, or to not want to expose the mental illness and paranoia of some, in so called appeasement, it is to condemn ourselves to suffer further attacks no matter how accomodating we could be.
FDR embraced socialist ideals because his disaterous economic policies brought the US to the brink of a communist revolution. Huey Long was a home-grown communist.
“And, ultimately, what really pulled America out of the Great Depression was World War II.”
No, what pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression was FDR dying.
We know he didn’t study economics.
If he studied the Constitution he didn’t learn anything, he must have studied law beause he must have passed a bar exam somewhere although he gave that up.
If I had to guess he was passed the same way most college football players are passed, bu that’s just me, I am predjudiced against him, because he is economically killing me.
(I know someone will take the word predjudiced out of context and call me a racist and I don’t care.)
FDR’s mother did not relinquish the family check book until she died, despite the fact that he was President of the United States. When your aged mother does not trust you with the family finances, should you be running the economy of the country during perilous times?
That’s it exactly. Said for shock value and to impress the young skulls full of mush who are too dumb to know any better.
That should clearly indicate to everyone how far left Obama is.
Somebody on another message thread said that it was the actions of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. that made the Great Depression worse because nobody could stop his "shorting" of many stocks, which allowed him to buy a lot of stock and real estate at essentially "fire sale" prices and sell them later at very handsome profits. Indeed, much of the Kennedy fortune came from buying "distressed" real estate in New York City and selling them by the late 1930's at huge profit. Indeed, the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, MA was probably built at very cheap prices in the 1930's.
One wonders did George Soros learn to be a ruthless investor by reading up on how Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. invested in the 1920's to 1938.
Yes all true 100%!
LLS
I think he’s trying to normalize the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Depression, and setting himself up as a Liberal God in the mold of FDR.
If we dont vote for FDR-Obama, we must be racist.
Fire side chats are next...
When it comes to spending, FDR spent like a Democrat, Obama like a drunken Democrat.
FDR was the Original Cloward-Piven!!
So many lies in one statement.
1. FDR did not propose an austerity budget. Spending actually increased as a percentage of GDP.
2. The "recession within a Depression" of 1937 was caused by the Wagner Act empowering unions and causing wages to rise almost 15% within a year. That led to massive layoffs and a slowdown in business activity.
3. WWII did not get us out of the Depression. That's, perhaps, the biggest lie of all. It did end unemployment. Forcing several million young men into battle will do that. But the Depression only ended when most of the New Deal was dismantled at the end of the war after FDR's death and the election of a Republican congress.
Geez, I hate misinformation.
Without reading all this it appears Bro is explaining reality to his
base
History repeats itself.
He came close to it the other day in that presser. But I am looking for a Howard Beale moment ala the movie Network. A total melt down.
"I accuse the present Administration (Hoover's) of being the greatest spending Administration in peace time in all American history one which piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs or reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer.... We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving to the people." --FDR, 1932 campaign speech.
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