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Originally posted by Netracer41:
I am very aware of the things Mr. Roosevelt did. You and I just have a different perspective. I beleive the free market and not the government are the source of our prosperity. Remember the more govenment can do for you the more it can do to you.
Mr. Roosevelt started our country on a road to more government control with the socialist programs he started. Like the WPA? And of course Welfare, and Social Security. The govenment had no business instituting these programs. Remember it is PROVIDE for the common defense and Support the general welfare, not the other way around.
I realize we are from an economically deprived area. That is why most of us had to leave the Shoals to make a good living.
Some still beleive that F.D.R. not the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor to get us in that war. I don't know about that.
Again I respect your point of view we just don't share it.
YOu are correct in that FDR did see the government as a means to help the people who made up the government.As for WPA, CCC camps etc, (ie the alphabet programs), he was not scared to try something, and if it worked (like TVA) keep it, and if it didn't , try something else.
I am old enough to remember people who did not have SSI. Many people would not save for their old age, and the only option is to fource them, or let them starve. SSI was instituted to fource people to take care of themselves. You got a better idea?
Lets just talk about the FDR plan that I know the most about - TVA. Do you realize that TVA "invented" commercial fertalizer? Where do you think we would be without that. This country has fed the world since 1933 due to this fact. THe Tennessee VAlley uses more electricity for more purposes than any other reagon in the country. Where would we be without plentiful cheap electricity?
YOu like your freedom, maybe even your life? Well, the neculear facility at Oak Ridge was put there for one reason. ONly one electrical utility could provide the massive ammount of electricity needed to refine uranium to make the atomic bomb that ended WW2 and therefore negated the invasion of Japan , which would have required about 1 million men, one of which may have been your daddy! That utility was TVA, which also went into war mode and provided electricity to "manufacture the aluminum to make the planes to bomb the bastard".
During his sojurn in Ga. FDR thought up REA to electrify rural America.
All that is just a tast of what that great man did for his country. Think about that as apposed to what the current jerk has done TO his country. Just kinda makes you want to crY.
ps: I hope you don't believe Roosevelt bombed Pearl Harbor. If so, we have nothing left to discuss.