Gem
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A history professor at PITT told my class that in fact, the rationing the government implemented in WWII was in large part, unneccesary, the government simply did it in order to make sure that the people back home felt that they were doing something - were reminded everyday that we were at war and that it was very serious.
Sounds to me like FDR was quite aware that the public needed to be a bit scared in order to make the sacrifices neccesary to win a war.
Imagine today if we found out Bush had "manufactured" a shortage of something in order to make us "feel the pinch" because we were at war. The Dems would have him impeached faster than you can blink...
Not to mention the fairly convincing evidence that FDR knew about a Japanese plan for attacking us somewhere (had several advisors pointing at Pearl Harbor) but did nothing because he had promised the British he would get the US into the war...and lets not forget his BLATANT abuse of the treaties and agreements the US made prior to the War as we helped Great Britian and screwed over Germany....
FDR lied, cheated, stole, and abused American citizens to get us into WWII...but wait, I forgot...thats ok cause he was a Democrat...
Sounds to me like FDR was quite aware that the public needed to be a bit scared in order to make the sacrifices neccesary to win a war.
Imagine today if we found out Bush had "manufactured" a shortage of something in order to make us "feel the pinch" because we were at war. The Dems would have him impeached faster than you can blink...
Not to mention the fairly convincing evidence that FDR knew about a Japanese plan for attacking us somewhere (had several advisors pointing at Pearl Harbor) but did nothing because he had promised the British he would get the US into the war...and lets not forget his BLATANT abuse of the treaties and agreements the US made prior to the War as we helped Great Britian and screwed over Germany....
FDR lied, cheated, stole, and abused American citizens to get us into WWII...but wait, I forgot...thats ok cause he was a Democrat...