Poll: FDR # 1 President

Great evidence of the leftist indoctrination in both edumacation and pop culture.

You know what Jethro, I lived in a liberal dominated America and now a conservative dominated America...the EVIDENCE I see has nothing to do with indoctrination, it has to do with reality.

Ronbo Reagan WAS the pied piper on the road to serfdom...


Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
 
Reagan never was small government or fiscally conservative. In fact, taxes were raised several times during the Reagan Administration and Federal Jobs grew during his Administration. He also made the largest cabinet level program at the time until Homeland Security was created. Oh, and he spent money like it was going out of style.
 
When we judge our presidents we should look at their records. Their accomplishments while they were in office. One of the most underrated presidents of this past century is Calvin Coolidge. He took office after President Woodrow Wilson. Unemployment was in the double digits, inflation was high and government spending was out of control.

President coolidge LOWERED TAXES for all classes and cut government spending in half. Midway through Coolidge's first term unemployment was 2%! His administration holds the record of the lowest misery index average of the past century. Anyone ever heard of "The Roaring Twenties"?

The point is simple. Any president who has followed a conservative blueprint of smaller government and lower taxes has had success with a strong economy. It worked for Coolidge, JFK and Reagan.

This forum is NOT for peddling your crap.

~Dude
Well, Coolidge was president into 1929. What happened then, oh yes, the depression.
Speaking of re-writing history! :rofl:
Calvin Coolidge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States
In office
August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929[1]
 
Well, Coolidge was president into 1929. What happened then, oh yes, the depression.

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Packing the courts was a dirty tactic, but if he was acting as dictator or king he wouldn't have bothered going through the legislative motions of it.
Really good despots know how to keep up appearences.

So, how'd he goad the Japanese into attacking?
Never heard of the economic and material embargo on Japan?

Never heard of the American Volunteer Group, aka the Flying Tigers, who were deployed and flying combat sorties in China in advance of 7 December?
 
Nobody said anything about Reagan until now, idjut. :lol::lol::lol:

In fairness:

When we judge our presidents we should look at their records. Their accomplishments while they were in office. One of the most underrated presidents of this past century is Calvin Coolidge. He took office after President Woodrow Wilson. Unemployment was in the double digits, inflation was high and government spending was out of control.

President coolidge LOWERED TAXES for all classes and cut government spending in half. Midway through Coolidge's first term unemployment was 2%! His administration holds the record of the lowest misery index average of the past century. Anyone ever heard of "The Roaring Twenties"?

The point is simple. Any president who has followed a conservative blueprint of smaller government and lower taxes has had success with a strong economy. It worked for Coolidge, JFK and Reagan.

This forum is NOT for peddling your crap.

~Dude
 
Packing the courts was a dirty tactic, but if he was acting as dictator or king he wouldn't have bothered going through the legislative motions of it.
Really good despots know how to keep up appearences.

So, how'd he goad the Japanese into attacking?
Never heard of the economic and material embargo on Japan?

Never heard of the American Volunteer Group, aka the Flying Tigers, who were deployed and flying combat sorties in China in advance of 7 December?

they were just volunteers dude, like the Condor Legion in spain....oh wait...:lol:
 
So, how'd he goad the Japanese into attacking?
Never heard of the economic and material embargo on Japan?

Never heard of the American Volunteer Group, aka the Flying Tigers, who were deployed and flying combat sorties in China in advance of 7 December?

So you're suggesting the Japanese wouldn't have attacked us at all, if we hadn't embargoed them? They didn't want natural resources they lacked in their own country?

Are you also suggesting the entire reason for the embargos was to provoke direct war with Japan and not as a response to what Japan was doing in Asia? Nanking, Manchuria, etc?

So how did the (voluntary) Flying Tigers provoked the Japanese? Did the Japanese later cite this as a cause for war?
 
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From the link:

In an outcome pollsters dub “Rushmore Plus One,” more than 200 scholars surveyed in the latest Siena College Research Institute Presidential Expert Poll...
Might just as well say "a poll of more than 200 dyed-in-the-wool leftists".

Now Dooodeee.... anyone smarter than you is a leftist to you. Too bad for you that is 95% of the population.
 
Well, Coolidge was president into 1929. What happened then, oh yes, the depression.
Speaking of re-writing history! :rofl:
Calvin Coolidge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States
In office
August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929[1]

In case you didn't realize there was a depression from 1920-1921 that most people have never heard of because it was so short and was easily corrected by the common sense of conservative ideology. The man behind the fix deserves some respect and almost never gets any appreciation, and believe it or not it was Warren G. Harding. There's a lot of history to learn from,especially when it comes to economics, but most of the valuable stuff is forgotten.
 
Big Fits wrote: "And the best part! His war on poverty has wasted over 2 trillion dollars to date and poverty rates today are the SAME as they were in the 1960's! But at least they're even more dependent on the race baiting groups that claim kinship to Dr. King, while retaining NONE of the same philosophy. Content of character? Pah! what's that get me? I gots ta git PAYED!"

In fact: "How has poverty changed over time? ~~ In the late 1950s, the poverty rate for all Americans was 22.4 percent, or 39.5 million individuals. These numbers declined steadily throughout the 1960s, reaching a low of 11.1 percent, or 22.9 million individuals, in 1973. Over the next decade, the poverty rate fluctuated between 11.1 and 12.6 percent, but it began to rise steadily again in 1980. By 1983, the number of poor individuals had risen to 35.3 million individuals, or 15.2 percent. // For the next ten years, the poverty rate remained above 12.8 percent, increasing to 15.1 percent, or 39.3 million individuals, by 1993. The rate declined for the remainder of the decade, to 11.3 percent by 2000. From 2000 to 2004 it rose each year to 12.7 in 2004. // Since the late 1960s, the poverty rate for people over 65 has fallen dramatically. The poverty rate for children has historically been somewhat higher than the overall poverty rate. The poverty rate for people in households headed by single women is significantly higher than the overall poverty rate."

And more from: The University of Michigan, The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
National Poverty Center | University of Michigan

Anyone who saw this nations poverty in the 30s, 40s and 50s would never question whether the war on poverty worked. LBJ established a safety net that keeps certain sections of our nation from living in third world conditions. If you saw the news reports during LBJs crusade you would see Americans living without running water, without electricity, without access to nutritious food.
Try to compare that to today. LBJ managed a great accomplishment with his social programs....Viet Nam wrecked him
That post hoc ergo propter hoc dog don't hunt, Sparky.

And of course the media showed us soup kitchen America...If it bleeds it leads was their motto way back then, too.

Fraid not Dudester....

That was America of the 30s-50s. There were areas of extreme poverty that rivaled third world living conditions. Yes the "bleeding heart" media brought it all into our living rooms...those bastards!

LBJ cared enough to do something about it
 
Speaking of re-writing history! :rofl:
Calvin Coolidge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States
In office
August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929[1]

In case you didn't realize there was a depression from 1920-1921 that most people have never heard of because it was so short and was easily corrected by the common sense of conservative ideology. The man behind the fix deserves some respect and almost never gets any appreciation, and believe it or not it was Warren G. Harding. There's a lot of history to learn from,especially when it comes to economics, but most of the valuable stuff is forgotten.

Don't ya'll love right wing revisionist history?

Bizarro World
 
Anyone who saw this nations poverty in the 30s, 40s and 50s would never question whether the war on poverty worked. LBJ established a safety net that keeps certain sections of our nation from living in third world conditions. If you saw the news reports during LBJs crusade you would see Americans living without running water, without electricity, without access to nutritious food.
Try to compare that to today. LBJ managed a great accomplishment with his social programs....Viet Nam wrecked him
That post hoc ergo propter hoc dog don't hunt, Sparky.

And of course the media showed us soup kitchen America...If it bleeds it leads was their motto way back then, too.

Fraid not Dudester....

That was America of the 30s-50s. There were areas of extreme poverty that rivaled third world living conditions. Yes the "bleeding heart" media brought it all into our living rooms...those bastards!

LBJ cared enough to do something about it

Informed people of sense in the 50's would most certainly have questioned it....
 
Speaking of re-writing history! :rofl:
Calvin Coolidge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States
In office
August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929[1]

In case you didn't realize there was a depression from 1920-1921 that most people have never heard of because it was so short and was easily corrected by the common sense of conservative ideology. The man behind the fix deserves some respect and almost never gets any appreciation, and believe it or not it was Warren G. Harding. There's a lot of history to learn from,especially when it comes to economics, but most of the valuable stuff is forgotten.

The correction was not by Harding (who was a journalist) but by his Treasury Secretary, who at first wanted to give a tax cut only to the rich but was forced to give it to the middle class as well. That, along with consumer demand, corrected the RECESSION. Words have meanings, guy. Use them correctly.
 
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It appears those answering these polls are not well informed. FDR is one of the worst presidents this country has ever had. We have him to thank for a long list of unsustainable government programs that the framers would frown upon. He passed legislation that silenced his opposers, making it illegal for them to exercise their first amendment right and speak out against his administration. He served 16 consecutive years in office as the closest thing America has ever had to a king or dictator.

Here is a worthy question. If FDR was such a great president, why did Congress draft legislation that would limit the Presidency to only two term limits immediately after Roosevelt's death? The law was passed before his body was even put in the ground. FDR doesn't belong in the same category as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Anyone who thinks so needs to read their history.

This forum is NOT for peddling your crap.

~Dude

I agree with that 100 percent, I'd also like to add the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 which robbed money from the hands of citizens, by seizing gold and silver assets people had in banks and outlawing private ownership coin and bullion, only to be replaced with worthless notes. FDR was nothing more than a socialist coddling thief.
 

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