Eighty years ago today

[Little-Acorn]

Eighty years ago today, on March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States. And the country began its long slide into socialism, which continues to this day.

 

[Little-Acorn]

(We'll pause for a moment, while the usual leftist fanatics scream their usual screams, insisting that if it doesn't follow the exact dictionary definition of "socialism" with every I dotted and every T crossed, then it isn't socialism.)

(Have you ever wondered why they are so deathly afraid of normal Americans realizing how close to socialism we are? These fanatics like socialism! )

 

[Old Rocks]

And eighty years from now America will still be honoring a great American President, and no one will even know what your name was.

 

[Little-Acorn]

And eighty years from now America will still be honoring a great American President

Yup. The President that held office a hundred years before their time.

, and no one will even know what your name was.

Nobody knows what my name is now.

 

[Avorysuds]

And eighty years from now America will still be honoring a great American President, and no one will even know what your name was.

looking at how things have been going, no, people might not care who FDR was in 80 years as it will have nothing to do with their country. At best America will be looked to as a country that started well but taught the world what not to do.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Welfarism is not socialism.

Acorn is unable to define socialism and to give us exact examples from the American narrative.

No: Acorn is not entitled to his "own facts". He is stuck with traditional narrative and definitions.

 

[Black_Label]

Eighty years ago today, on March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States. And the country began its long slide into socialism, which continues to this day.

FDR was one of the, if not the greatest president in the history of the nation.

Though to radical right wing nutcases like yourself, you would rather us to be speaking german right now.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Eighty years ago today, on March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States. And the country began its long slide into socialism, which continues to this day.

FDR was one of the, if not the greatest president in the history of the nation.

When the final history of this country is written, it will record that FDR recognized helped defeat national socialists and imperialist dictators abroad...

...only to turn the country over to similar economic socialists and dictators within our own borders, whose agenda was just as destructive in the long run.

Though to radical right wing nutcases like yourself, you would rather us to be speaking german right now.

Do you often have these attacks of hysterical raving when you can't refute the truth?

Help is available.

 

[MikeK]

Eighty years ago today, on March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States. And the country began its long slide into socialism, which continues to this day.

When FDR was elected this Nation was foundering in a Great Depression. Unemployment had become an accustomed standard. The majority of Americans were living in poverty or near poverty. Homelessness was commonplace, there were tent cities and "hobo jungles" all over. In New York City the morgue wagon made its winter morning rounds, collecting bodies of old, helf-starved homeless people who had frozen to death in the night.

My own father had sold almost everything he owned of any value. He barely had any work as a locksmith because few had any money to hire him. If it weren't for my grandmother's earnings as a dressmaker to the wealthy they would have been living on the street.

Shortly before I was born, in 1936, Roosevelt commenced the WPA and CCC federal make-work programs, partially financed by raising taxes on the rich to 91%. My father and uncle were hired to work on roads and in forests in upstate New York. Millions of other down-and-out Americans were similarly rescued from the grip of poverty by those programs.

In addition to those programs, Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935, ensuring that old people would never again be deprived of the necessities of life and would be able to end their days in dignity regardless of other financial considerations.

FDR was not a socialist. But he understood how unconstrained capitalism will always manage to topple the economy and cause stagnant depressions, and he understood how to keep capitalism under control by imposing certain socialist regulations, which is what he did. Our present problems began when Ronald Reagan commenced the progression of de-regulations, beginning with the Savings & Loan debacle, and we are seeing the results of what he, Bush-1, Bill Clinton, and Bush-2 have done by repealing virtually all of the economic regulations imposed by FDR and others.

This generation of Americans need to understand that both capitalism and socialism, if left to reach their extreme potentials, will produce catastrophic results. The best system is capitalism which is held in check by certain socialist regulations. The only way for the U.S. to pull itself out of debt and get back on track is to raise the tax levels of the rich and the corporations and to restore all the economic regulations which have been repealed by right-wing toadies.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a great President and a fine human being. It's too bad so many contemporary Americans have such short memories and are so easily brainwashed by right-wing propaganda.

 

[Black_Label]

Eighty years ago today, on March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States. And the country began its long slide into socialism, which continues to this day.

FDR was one of the, if not the greatest president in the history of the nation.

When the final history of this country is written, it will record that FDR recognized helped defeat national socialists and imperialist dictators abroad...

...only to turn the country over to similar economic socialists and dictators within our own borders, whose agenda was just as destructive in the long run.

Though to radical right wing nutcases like yourself, you would rather us to be speaking german right now.

Do you often have these attacks of hysterical raving when you can't refute the truth?

Help is available.

Do you even know what a socialist is? Or does it just "sound scary", so you parrot it like a useful sheep from the Beck programming.

I'm going with door #2.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Eighty years ago today, on March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States. And the country began its long slide into socialism, which continues to this day.

FDR was one of the, if not the greatest president in the history of the nation.

When the final history of this country is written, it will record that FDR recognized helped defeat national socialists and imperialist dictators abroad...

...only to turn the country over to similar economic socialists and dictators within our own borders, whose agenda was just as destructive in the long run.

Though to radical right wing nutcases like yourself, you would rather us to be speaking german right now.

Do you often have these attacks of hysterical raving when you can't refute the truth?

Help is available.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Acorn is raving because he can't support his premise with solid irrefutable evidence.

He does not even know basic and traditional definitions for socialism and communism.