regent
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Do you think you are going to change the evaluation of the people that voted four times for FDR or the historians that have rated presidents since 1948? But maybe you're right, one had to live through the Great Depression and WWII to understand what went on. But then again there are the historian's history books you can't seem to find.And what is the point of your tattoo bit? In fact, what is the point of most of your posts? What is it, that you are trying to say? Is your goal to make FDR a bad president or what? If so, that goal has been settled some years ago, and in FDR's favor."....loaned to businesses to buy more products that already sat on the shelves and couldn't be sold."
Rather than to the Americans who needed same, FDR sent these materials to his brother-from-another-mother, Joseph Stalin....
"He (FDR) left no doubt of the importance he attached to aid to Russia. 'I would go out and take the stuff off the shelves of the stores,' he told [Treasure Secretary Henry] Morganthau on March 11, 1942, 'and pay them any price necessary, and put it in a truck and rush it to the boat...Nothing would be worse than to have the Russians collapse."
George C. Herring, "Aid to Russia," p. 42,56.
Of course, there was never any chance of a Russian collapse, nor of a German victory.
An interesting passage from Larsson's best seller, "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo:"
“In the early hours of June 22 in 1941, Lobach knocked on the door of my bedroom. My room was next to his wife’s bedroom, and he signalled me to be quiet, get dressed, and come with him. We went downstairs and sat in the smoking salon. Lobach had been up all night. He had the radio on, and I realised that something serious had happened. Operation Barbarossa had begun. Germany had invaded the Soviet Union on Midsummer Eve.” Vanger gestured in resignation. “Lobach took out two glasses and poured a generous aquavit for each of us. He was obviously shaken. When I asked him what it all meant, he replied with foresight that it meant the end for Germany and Nazism. I only half believed him—Hitler seemed undefeatable, after all—but Lobach and I drank a toast to the fall of Germany. Then he turned his attention to practical matters.”
Stieg Larsson, “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” p. 199
Soooo......why defend Stalin and Soviet Communism down to the last drop of American blood???
The point is
a. to reveal the sham that was Franklin Roosevelt
and
b. to reveal what a dunce you are.
I believe both aims have been accomplished.
"Do you think you are going to change the evaluation of the people that voted four times for FDR or the historians ..."
That's not my mission.
My aim is simply to provide the facts, and make it clear that fools.....you.....have no way to refute them, yet stick to the dogma you've been brought up on.
Nor am I the only one.....
".....the New Deal can be seen as a series of economic misadventures achieved through the force of mass propaganda, and owing its success solely to America’s victory in WWII.
- In an insightful analysis, John A. Garraty compared Roosevelt’s New Deal with aspects of the Third Reich: a strong leader; an ideology stressing the nation, the people and the land; state control of economic and social affairs; and the quality and quantity of government propaganda. Garraty, “The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression,” American Historical Review, vol. 78 (1973) p. 907ff.
- Garraty reminds that to compare is not the same as to equate. Yet, many still find Garraty’s analysis too hot to handle. But.....the truth comes out....and I am in the vanguard.