On Mar 10, 1:27 am, Yoorg...@Jurgis.net wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:10:19 -0800 (PST), Shall not be infringed
>
> <
hot-ham-and-che...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> More importantly, the core of isolationist antiwar opposition to
> >> American involvement in WWII was the Republican Party, particularly in
> >> the Senate. They were responsible for much foot dragging that hindered
> >> FDR's efforts to get the nation and our military ready for war and keep
> >> our allies from early defeat. They were making too much money off the
> >> war and didn't want to pay any more taxes for defense.
>
> >FDR could and did any damned thing he wanted.
>
> >Do you ever wonder why there are term limits on the presidency?
>
> Do you ever wonder why---after the massive disaster of
> loonytarian/conservative government prior to his first term, that
> America actually became a better nation, more powerful nation, more
> consistent with principles of the founding because of him?
>
> No?
>
> FDR was rebuffed on a whole range of things. He was elected to FOUR
> consecutive terms because he save this nation, was needed to
> re-created and structure the nation, ----and mostly to counter the
> fucking conservatives who would have set us back to the mid 19th
> century
>
> Glad to help educate you
"We Remember, F.D.R.
We remember the bitter faces of the apple sellers
And their red cracked hands.
We remember the gray cold of ‘32
When the job stopped, and the bank stopped.
And the merry-go-round broke down,
And, finally,
Everything seemed to stop.
The whole big works of America,
Bogged down with a creeping panic,
And nobody knew how to fix it, while the wise guys sold the country
short,
Till one man said (and we listened)
“The one thing we have to fear is fear.”
Well, it’s quite a long time since then and the wise guys may not
remember.
But we do, F.D.R.
We remember some other things.
We remember the home saved and the crop saved and the courage put
back
in men’s faces.
We remember you said from the start,
“I don’t expect to make a hit every time I come to bat.”
We remember that.
And sometimes you’ve struck out and we know it
But we know the batting average too.
(Not we the-Wall-Street-people but we the people)
It’s written in our lives, in our kids growing up with a chance,
It’s written in the faces of the old folks who don’t have to go to
the
poor-house
And the tanned faces of the boys from the CCC,
It’s written in the water and the earth of the Tennessee Valley
The contour-plowing that saves the dust-stricken land,
And the lights coming on for the first time, on lonely farms…
A country squire from Hyde Park with a Harvard accent
Who never once failed the people
And whom the people won’t fail."
We don't have many statues of American Presidents in Britain, but we
have one of FDR. It was paid for by public subscription, but the
amount requested from an idividual was strictly limited, so that
people with limited means were on an equal footing with the wealthy.
The cost was raised virtually overnight, and it remains a true
'people's statue'.
Dr. Barry Worthington