WWFDRD What Would Franklin Delano Roosevelt Do?

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We sure could use a guy like FDR right now.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/volpe/newdeal/timeline...

Excellent New Deal timeline. Know your history.

Edit: Bad spelling.

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1. great link thank you

and YES we need another FDR or even a TR would be great right now or a JFK or anyone but * almost (tries to think of another person that could be greedier or more incompetent .... ?).

[flowomo]

2. Is that "Deleanor" a word play or a mistake?

You mixing in Eleanor on purpose? Anyway, I googled "Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt" and was amazed at how many hits there are -- and most seem to think that's really his name! Delano, of course.

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4. Thank You. Public education and all.

;-) I'm glad it's a common mistake. :+

[flowomo]

5. no harm intended! But more seriously....

what do you say to the freepers who throw the court packing scheme in your face?

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6. I've been watching the federal benches since

about 1995, when It became evident something was up. Usually a counter of "0 confirmations under Clinton for ~6 years looks pretty damn suspicious, don't you think?"

It seems to be a lack of education, you see, people of a more progressive persuasion didn't have, or much need a behemoth of a echo chamber to inform the public. We pretty much relied on the truth.

Now dis-information seems to be prevalent and the only thing that seems to be happening are that people are confused, distracted, mis-informed. Almost as if by design, Thank you Michael Powell.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62718-2004Nov19.html

[flowomo]

7. well, I meant FDR's court packing scheme....

my freeper acquaintances say, "Our guy is trying to pack the court with conservatives, but your guy (FDR) tried to destroy the whole structure of the court to get his friends onboard." They send me things like this:


Court Packing Scheme

Early in 1937, FDR tried to pass a court reform bill designed to allow the president to appoint an additional Supreme Court justice for each current justice over the age of 70, up to a maximum of six appointments. Though he claimed that the measure was offered in concern for the workload of the older justices, most observers saw the proposal as an obvious attempt to dilute the power of the older, conservative justices. The Senate voted against the proposal on July 22, 1937. Many claim that the proposed bill resulted in a loss of credibility for FDR that helped to slow the New Deal to a standstill.

http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/depression/terms/event_C.17.html

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8. So FDR tried to pack the SC, but failed, * tries to pack the SC and

Succeeds, And this is a victory for America how?

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3. here is another link ...

"Timeline of the Great Depression" it is called:

on edit: These parts of from the link below are especially creepy and too similar!

<< Over the decade, about 1,200 mergers will swallow up more than 6,000 previously independent companies; by 1929, only 200 corporations will control over half of all American industry.

By the end of the decade, the bottom 80 percent of all income-earners will be removed from the tax rolls completely. Taxes on the rich will fall throughout the decade.

By 1929, the richest 1 percent will own 40 percent of the nation's wealth. The bottom 93 percent will have experienced a 4 percent drop in real disposable per-capita income between 1923 and 1929.

The middle class comprises only 15 to 20 percent of all Americans. >>

Think it can't happen again?! It is happening RIGHT NOW!!


http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Timeline.htm

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