Topic: History
FDR: War Monger and Economic Idiot Most Americans believe in the Roosevelt myths: that he ended the Great Depression, and that he saved the world from Nazism.by Steven McDuffie
(libertarian)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
DisclaimerI didn't realize this was going to be one of my most popular articles. I apologize to my readers for the brevity and sloppiness of it. I am leaving the country for a few weeks. When I come back, I will rewrite this article, and bring it up to the standards of my others.
If public schools taught the unbiased facts about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Americans would know that the New Deal was an abysmal failure. Roosevelt's economic advisors thought that the cause of the Depression was low prices. To solve this problem perceived problem, the New Dealers embarked on an aggressive plan to shift the supply curve leftward, resulting in higher prices, thus stimulating the economy.
To this end, and with Americans literally starving in the streets, the Braindead Trust burned thousands of mountains of potatoes; plowed under millions of acres of crops; slaughtered six million piglets; and prosecuted and fined tens of thousands of American small business owners for the crime of charging too little.
Not surprisingly, that destruction didn't lead to greater prosperity. Unemployment never went below 14% during Roosevelt's first two terms and the average over his entire reign of error was 17% causing Treasury Secretary Morgenthau to lament "We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started, and an enormous debt to boot."
FDR devoted himself to Stalin more than five months before Pearl Harbor and his love for Stalin approached the level of insanity with Operation: Keelhaul, in which some two million Russian soldiers, who were either POWs in German prison camps who didn't want to return back to Russia or who wanted to return home to overthrow the Soviet regime, were arrested and turned over to Soviet officials.
Roosevelt's actions allowed the Soviets to enslave an additional five hundred million people under communism's cruel heal. He was not a great president: he was one of our worst.
Steven McDuffie can be contacted by emailing him at sdmcduffie {at} hotmail {dot} com.
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Posted By: Simon Bar Sinister
Date: 2009-04-23 14:10:55
"He was not a great president: he was one of our worst."
And Obama is walking in his hero's footsteps.
Anyone who does not understand history is doomed to repeat it. Obama understands history, but the American people don't have a clue. They walked right into this one too.
He confiscated all the gold in private hands, despite the fact that it is our legal currency under the constitution. He forced people to turn in their gold and gave them paper dollars instead. Then he devalued the paper money from $20 per ounce to $35 dollars per ounce.
"If public schools taught the unbiased facts about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Americans would know that the New Deal was an abysmal failure."
Tell that to the ones who actually lived through the Great Depression and World War II.....and voted FDR for President three more times. Either they must have been incredibly stupid.....or you are not telling the truth. So why not simply declare democracy itself a failed concept?
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