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NewSoviet507 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hes Cult of personality was unmatched
The only American Dictator
Bwag35 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@lildwayne21 you are a freaking nut. Republicans were founded on ablotiong slavery. comunism and liberals are the same
Maserati7200 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
FDR prolonged the great depression. The reason he was so popular is that he fooled people into thinking they were getting out of the great depression. You know what actually got us out of the great depression? WW2. FDR was a tyrant, and one of the worst presidents in American History, IMHO. You've all romanticized him into something he wasn't. Just because he spoke well and made people feel all warm and cozy inside, doesn't mean he was a good president.
Seaworldexists (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@audimaximus Thats exactly right. Reagan convinced americans they could have the best of both worlds but you cant.
Salvysahagun (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
In terms of Healthcare Roosevelt was talking about building a Healthcare infrastructure such as Hill-Burton
or how the New Deal actually built around 300 charity hospitals
audimaximus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@firejack007 United States, Greece, Ireland, Spain and Italy. All governments running Keynsian social welfare policies combined with Republican tax policies. That is the worst idea in the history of mankind to combine both systems together. The pure Keynsian countries in scandinavia are doing great and so is the pure Hayek country of Hong Kong. All countries should choose what they are willing to pay for and base the tax rates off what they picked. Balanced budget ammendment FTW.
audimaximus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@firejack007 If the U.S. increased revenue enough to run a balanced budget, we would have the highest middle class tax rates in the world. Denmark gets = workers pay to the U.S. All workers get 30 paid days of vacation. All citizens get free child care, free health care, free college and get paid to go to college. Governement has balanced budgets and 4% unemployment. Their markets are almost as free has ours. Great job selling socialism has the root of all evil.
audimaximus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@firejack007 There was protectionism. What high taxation do you speak of? 1925-1932 was the 2nd lowest tax rate on rich people in the last 95 years. Only eclipsed by todays %15 rate on billionaires. Where was the intervention and socialism while 11000 banks collapsed under hoover? Many of those where healthy banks done in by fear. For as long as the worst times in this countries history come under the lowest tax rates I am convinced you are reading only what you want to hear.
audimaximus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@firejack007 It is pretty difficult to compare and contrast any policy from 1920 America. Please remember that in late 1918 1/4 of the worlds population died to the flu. The end of world war 1 soldiers were so sick they lied there in the fox hole too weak to defend themselves. That caused labor wages to skyrocket. Every where you looked their where dead people who needed to be hauled off to mass graves. Governements must have had all they could do to return life to normal.
audimaximus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@firejack007 Are you the employee of one of Kochs many organizations designed to drum up intellegent sounding arguments to stump leftist ideas in the court of public opinion? When Keynes said the massive tax cuts of the 20's was the cause of the great depression I tend to believe him. He said when a high percentage of wealth is earned by the few it will spell doom because those people spend so little of what they make. Kochs make 200 million a week at a century low tax rate. |
