(Harold) Ickes Named U.S. Oil "Dictator"

(PDF Direct Download) Idaho Times ^ | May 31st, 1941 | T. F. REYNOLDS

[jttpwalsh]

Thank you for the courtesy of your reply.

[ProgressingAmerica]

I see the point you’re making. You are correct.

Media titles aside, there’s still a question as to where FDR got the idea from:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2905842/posts

[SunkenCiv]

May 31st, 1941 — thanks ProgressingAmerica.

[justiceseeker93]

It's pretty obvious that some people at the Obama White House have studied the history of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration quite extensively and are emulating it whenever feasible. So we are today reliving in many ways the tyrannical government actions that occurred then, with slight changes in the government vocabulary, perhaps, like Obama’s “czars” instead of Roosevelt's “dictators.”

[null and void]

Um, Nixon appointed Czars.

[justiceseeker93]

Um, Nixon appointed Czars.

I don't remember them, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did, because Nixon was a big government Republican. And he didn't have to study history to emulate Roosevelt because he himself lived through the Roosevelt era.

But that's beside the point I was making, namely that there is a lot of Roosevelt redux in the Obama era, primarily in the areas of government takeover of the economy and Keynesian stimuli and massive deficit spending, all of it accruing to the benefit of political pals of the regime and little or none to the benefit of the economy in general.