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Clearly the answer is Obama, I mean, they gave the guy a Nobel prize simply for being elected and his list of positive accomplishments while president is pretty much blank and his primary accomplishment was the rise of identitarian politics and the further polarization and division of the country.... yet he's still held in high regard by our friends on the left for some reason.
Worst president ever, no doubt in my mind, but not overrated because a lot of people take issue with the Wilson admin.
Lincoln and FDR are the most overrated, and by a wide margin over any others. The reason being, both were horribly destructive, but are damn near deified as saints, miracle workers and saviors. Absolutely the two most overrated.
Clearly the answer is Obama, I mean, they gave the guy a Nobel prize simply for being elected and his list of positive accomplishments while president is pretty much blank and his primary accomplishment was the rise of identitarian politics and the further polarization and division of the country.... yet he's still held in high regard by our friends on the left for some reason.
Obama had us at war every day he was President --- all 8 years.
Because he united us and got us to the moon. Has any other country even tried putting a person on the moon?
He authorized the bay of Pigs invasion. He appointed his brother Robert as attorney general. Bobby Kennedy authorized the wiretapping of Martin Luther King, Jr. He almost started a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.
He authorized the bay of Pigs invasion. He appointed his brother Robert as attorney general. Bobby Kennedy authorized the wiretapping of Martin Luther King, Jr. He almost started a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.
Well, there are no nuclear missiles 90 miles off our shores, because of the Cuban missile crisis. You can criticize the other stuff, but that was the right thing to do.
It was the laissez-faire policies and disastrous tariffs of Coolidge and Hoover that caused the Great Depression, so no, it didn't happen on FDR's watch.
Agree on the tarriffs.
Hoover was for big government. It was the expansion of the money supply that caused the Depression and it as the horrible big government polices of FDR that prolonged it.
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And it isn't fair to say FDR's policies caused the Depression to linger because many of his ideas and programs were blocked by an obstructionist Congress. Many economists say the 1937-38 recession happened because Congress enacted deep spending cuts on FDR's programs -- the economy was deprived of stimulus that it still needed to fully recover.
No the many economists said the opposite. The all agreed that money need to be put into the system through the private sector. FDR took money away from companies and the people. SS tax payments kicked in and the tax on undistributed profits. The money used in the past to retain employees in order to avoid the high cost of training new employees. R and D employees were let go since that is usually the first department to see cuts. No money to pay them since government took it. So 4 years into FDRs term, UE was down to ~16% hip hip hurray that was real progress.
Explain how in the early 1920s government cut spending and taxes by 40% over 2 years time and we saw UE drop from 12 to under 4? Ten years before that we got out of a mini depression so explain to me how it worked in the the early 20's but not in the early 30's?
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