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An 8 from me, I think. His handling of the Great Depression was a 9.7 (did NOT like his attempts to pack the Supreme Court), but I think WW II could have been handled better. He also could have done more for civil rights. BUT he was a very strong leader, which counted for a lot during the 30's and 40's.
Which specific policies of his helped handle the Great Depression? I just want to hear about that since that is the only thing that matters.
Because of him we have a reliance on government handouts. And you wonder why over 30% of Americans are on welfare.
So before SS there was no way for Seniors to get by? They were dying in the streets until the benevolent hand of government came along? lol Make something else up.
The New Deal ruined the economy and our entrance into WW2 saved it.
Clueless here...
I remember my grandparents telling me all about the Great Depression. The elderly had to rely on their families to take care of them before SS...families only had 1 income in many cases. The Great Depression showed the folly of this...and that hit way before FDR was elected...he was elected precisely because of the Great Depression.
And Clinton was elected because of the Reagan/Bush Recession
Obama elected because of the GW Bush Great Recession
Biden elected because of Trump Recession by his mismanagement of Covid...
Republicans break the economy and Dem Presidents fix it...it's like Clockwork.
I remember my grandparents telling me all about the Great Depression. The elderly had to rely on their families to take care of them before SS...families only had 1 income in many cases. The Great Depression showed the folly of this...and that hit way before FDR was elected...he was elected precisely because of the Great Depression.
And Clinton was elected because of the Reagan/Bush Recession
Obama elected because of the GW Bush Great Recession
Biden elected because of Trump Recession by his mismanagement of Covid...
Republicans break the economy and Dem Presidents fix it...it's like Clockwork.
The economy is largely cyclical.
Good grief, shutting down the entire economy for COVID would have had the same consequences no matter who was in office.
FDR...the guy who illegally used the United States census to hunt down Japanese Americans and ship them off to concentration camps? He fumbled the economics and prolonged the great depression.
Trying to pack the courts was vile.
I'll give him a plus for setting up SS.
He was in no respect a great president. I'll give him a 4.
Franklin D. Roosevelt as a president, on a scale of 1-10 how do you rate him?
1 being terrible
10 being great
with the various gradations in between, How many stars does he get?
I wasn't around during Roosevelt's terms so I have no personal opinion. But my parents were and they were very much not in favor of him. About all I know is that he spent a LOT of money, pretty much like Biden is doing. I hope he was a little higher on the IQ scale than Biden though - come to think of it, he'd have to be brighter.
I remember my grandparents telling me all about the Great Depression. The elderly had to rely on their families to take care of them before SS...families only had 1 income in many cases. The Great Depression showed the folly of this...and that hit way before FDR was elected...he was elected precisely because of the Great Depression.
And Clinton was elected because of the Reagan/Bush Recession
Obama elected because of the GW Bush Great Recession
Biden elected because of Trump Recession by his mismanagement of Covid...
Republicans break the economy and Dem Presidents fix it...it's like Clockwork.
Clueless here...
Your one silly data point is just that. 1 instance which says nothing of value vs the truth and actual studies.
The depression that started under Hoover who enacted the same horrible policies that FDR duplicated and expanded on. In other words FDR took a horrible policy, backed it and expanded it.
The folly is thinking 1 wage earner to take care of a family is a bad idea.
Your factless post blaming 1 party is juvenile and incorrect and deflects from the issue which is FDR was a horrible economic President as the sky high and decade long UE rate prove. Why yes double digit unemployment rates are great news right?
making people poorer today for the promise of a payout later- classic ponzi
and of course none of that money is ever set aside. Its spent before its taken from the victim. You dont have to label it socialism, we can just call it a good ole scam
I remember my grandparents telling me all about the Great Depression. The elderly had to rely on their families to take care of them before SS...families only had 1 income in many cases. The Great Depression showed the folly of this...and that hit way before FDR was elected...he was elected precisely because of the Great Depression.
And Clinton was elected because of the Reagan/Bush Recession
Obama elected because of the GW Bush Great Recession
Biden elected because of Trump Recession by his mismanagement of Covid...
Republicans break the economy and Dem Presidents fix it...it's like Clockwork.
I remember my grandparents telling me all about the Great Depression. The elderly had to rely on their families to take care of them before SS...families only had 1 income in many cases. The Great Depression showed the folly of this...and that hit way before FDR was elected...he was elected precisely because of the Great Depression.
And Clinton was elected because of the Reagan/Bush Recession
Obama elected because of the GW Bush Great Recession
Biden elected because of Trump Recession by his mismanagement of Covid...
Republicans break the economy and Dem Presidents fix it...it's like Clockwork.
FDR's econ mastermind Rex Tugwell admitted years later that most of their policies to combat the depression were copied from Herbert Hoover. Hoover was left of center, a collectivist, who had worked in the Wilson (D) admin. FDR took office in 1932, and the depression rolled on for about another 10 years.
Democrat useful idiots know nothing about history but to blame the guy with the 'R' by his name. It's like clockwork.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rex Tugwell
“I once made a list of New Deal ventures begun during Hoover’s years as Secretary of Commerce and then as president,” Roosevelt advisor Rexford G. Tugwell wrote. “I had to conclude that his policies were substantially correct. The New Deal owed much to what he had begun.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt as a president, on a scale of 1-10 how do you rate him?
1 being terrible
10 being great
with the various gradations in between, How many stars does he get?
Nine
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