Chappell's thoughts on VP are dead on lol. I was thinking Hillary would keep him pretty safe
He's also half white btw. How come the white half doesn't factor in for any of the racist critics?
You can't take anything away from FDR, sorry. Nothing. There are other things to back money with besides gold and silver. Apparently Arab oil isn't the answer either
The numbers speak for themselves. Under democrat rule, we have more stable economy and a strong middle class. Everything else is fluff and gruff. The republican way = no middle class whatsoever and even the upper middle class is subject to poverty if they get their way. I don't care about abortion or gun control or gay marriage. I don't believe any of those church issues will ever reach a radical point anyway so they are moot points that are only ever really addressed with any gusto during campaigns. FDR stepped in and brought the country out of a seemingly hopeless depression. The gold and silver backing our money obviously wasn't enough. It all sounds good and it's easy to claim that was better. But...there was NO MIDDLE CLASS. The majority of America was POOR...until FDR. Now...granted a lot of people lived somewhat comfortable as far as not doing without by working hard ...very hard but they really didn't have anything. It's easy to look at Gone With the Wind and other Hollywood movies and assume that the majority of America had a lush life but the reality is, the plantation owners and other wealthy folks were an elite few. Everyone else was struggling to survive. Very rich and very poor is the way it's been for every civilization including ours ...until...FDR. My dad's name is Franklin Delano Gardin btw...My middle name is Franklin
My grandparents were tobacco farmers and suffered dearly through the depression. My great grandparents split and left the kids to fend for themselves. My grandfather at age 12, took his 8 year old brother and raised him ...and his self. They slept in barns, worked on farms...sometimes got a few pennies, sometimes got a meal. Sometimes worked all day and told to hit the road. Through the teens and twenties and into the thirties times were rougher than anyone alive today in America could possibly imagine. Even the "roaring twenties" was pretty harsh for most. Yeah...The dollar was tied to gold and silver through all those years...but there wasn't enough of them to go around was there?
Even as weak is the dollar is now, it's stronger than when it was tied to gold and silver and with a little tweaking of the economy by a strong democrat that's more concerned about the future of the country than lining his pockets by fluffing his oil buddies...Sorry but when things suck like they suck now, it's not the time to be conservative. It's time to be radical. Thank God we didn't get stuck with a non stop string of conservatives from Hoover to now or we'd still be in the same depression that FDR brought us out of...or speaking a different language ...probably Japanese or German.
Gotta admit FDR had some snappy quotes
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
