You didn't know that FDR came from a rich family?
Let's try again.
1. Franklin Roosevelt came from
a very wealthy family, so one may puzzle at the vituperation he leveled at similar folks. Perhaps that very background is the reason, as with the politician George McGovern,
he never learned how business worked, or how to earn money.
2. His mother Sara reported:
"Money was never discussed at home....All his books and toys were provided for him. We never subjected the boy to a lot of don'ts."
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BEFORE THE TRUMPET: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905," by Geoffrey C. Ward, p.125-126
a. Then again...how could they teach him about finance, after all,
his father, James, inherited his fortune...and almost lost it by way of poor investments.
b. His mother's father, Warren Delano, made his money
selling opium illegally to Chinese addicts.
When he retired to legitimate business, he didn't do much better than Franklin's father. Delano went back to the Opium trade, which is why Sara spent early years in China.
Ward, Op. Cit., p. 71.
3. Franklin had a high opinion of himself....he was certain he could make his mark in business, as well.
Let's see how he did:
"...
.he pursued futile schemes to drill oil in Wyoming, buy ships to cross the Atlantic, and sell stamps that were premoistened....tried to corner the live lobster market...lost $26,000 before bailing out.....he assumed that airplanes were only a passing fad, and he invested in a line of airships, called dirigibles,....tried buying and selling German marks, planting thousands of trees, making cash with vending machines,....lost money in his resort for polio patients in Warm Springs, Georgia- and then, to top that off, he lost more money farming the land nearby."
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A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928,"
by
Geoffrey C. Ward, p. 658, 756, 768-769, 793; Folsom, "New Deal or Raw Deal," p.24-25
a. "Roosevelt knows nothing about finance, but
he doesn't know he doesn't know." Franklin Lane, Woodrow Wilson's Sec'y of the Interior
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This, while the scion of another Dutch family did considerably better: Cornelius Vanderbilt, and other poor men, sometimes immigrants, took the lead in oil, steel and railroads.
Such was the provenance of Franklin Roosevelt's hatred of the successful.
Perhaps he even said 'You didn't build that.'