Roosevelt made no secret of what he was going to do. Love him or hate him, voters knew what they were getting when he was elected.
Those who hated or feared FDR accused him of practicing socialism. You wouldn't have heard Bush accused of that until recently, when he socialized the debt of big banking.
Bush has attempted with great success to deregulate private industry. He stood by while people began to lose their homes. But when the big financials began to collapse, all but one have gotten the helping hand that people whose only asset was a home were told to whistle for. He says that government spending is a bad thing, unless the spending benefits people he knows by taking it from people he doesn't.
Bush brings the power of government to help citizens with power. FDR brought the power of government to help as many citizens as possible. FDR's actions were undoubtedly influenced by his times, but he is revered for a reason.
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- Anyone still think unregulated capitalism is a viable financial system?
- re: unregulated capitalism
- We SHOULD have known when Bush said, "NO MORE BAILOUTS."
- Can't do any worse than the regulated system that created this mess.
- "U.S. bailout is bitter pill for free marketeers"
- It's perfectly fine if one accepts that the strong make up their own rules, and are allowed to eat alive the weak. (n/t)
- re: You just don’t get it
- Jimmy Carter was the problem. Not greed as McCain says. Former President Jimmy Carter.
- And I TOLD him at the time, I said "Jimmy, be careful!"
- Not Clinton, not Carter. It was Roosevelt. We were doing just fine under Hoover.
- re: You still don't get it (n/t)
- He can't.
- Hilarious. Kinda reminds me of Bush Senior blaming the LA riots on Lyndon Johnson (who had been dead for 20 years) (n/t)
- I am fairly certain that, even as you wrote that, you knew it was a pile of horseshit
- "goes back a lot further..."
- Not you too.
- Yeah, well, the one on the right is hogging all the food! (n/t)
- I hereby nominate McFly for "Post of the Year" (n/t)
- What is pathetic is that after 8 years and trillions of dollars and after having your face rubbed in it YOU dont get it...
- re: Hey RLoser you talking at me again
- re: having your face rubbed in it.
- He can't.
- Jimmy Carter was the problem. Not greed as McCain says. Former President Jimmy Carter.