38% FDR? I'm disappointed.
This is the man that ordered farmers to burn their crops while people went hungry. He had milk poured down drains when people were thirsty. His Keynesian economics dictated that the state must keep things scarce in order to keep prices high.
He issued an [i]executive order[/i] to intern Japanese-Americans.
And for the liberals that hate nuclear weaponry, who do you think kickstarted the project?
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source?
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[quote]Frequent changes in the tax laws plus FDR’s anti-business rhetoric (“economic royalists”) discouraged people from making investments essential for growth and jobs. New Deal securities laws made it harder for employers to raise capital. FDR issued antitrust lawsuits against some 150 employers and companies, making it harder for them to focus on business. FDR signed a law ordering the break-up of America’s strongest banks, with the lowest failure rates. New Deal farm policies destroyed food — 10 million acres of crops and 6 million farm animals — thereby wiping out farm jobs and forcing food prices above market levels for 100 million American consumers.[/quote] http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/fresh-debate-about-fdrs-new-deal
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thanks m8
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He helped bring our country out of the Great Depression
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A wartime industry boom brought us out of the Depression. A rock could have been president and the economic boom from WWII would have still carried us. FDR's biggest contribution to the U.S. was Social Security and other entitlements, which now account for 40% of current expenditures. So it's a "contribution" the same way a terminal STD is a contribution.