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FDR's econ advisor Rexford Tugwell admitted later that most of the anti-depression policies enacted by FDR were just a continuation of what Hoover had started.
Hoover was a big-gov't guy just like FDR. In fact, both of them got their start in national politics working for the grandfather of progressivism, Woodrow Wilson.
Rexford Tugwell was a socialist and a communist sympathizer. He was the governor appointed to the territory of P.R. and he created the territory's planning, urbanization and zoning board and centralized the government in the island and made sure he put socialists in charge when he left. It's the reason the island is a mess today. You know FDR's policies were messed up when his main economic advisor was a socialist.
Totally wrong because where I live has many south East Asian folks, many Russian folks, many Middle East folks. They come to where the welfare is. They don't come to racist dumps.
Southeast Asians are mostly Filipinos and Vietnamese. In the case of the Vietnamese, that really goes back to the Vietnam War. Filipinos go back to when it was basically a colony of the United States. It is very easy to move here from the Philippines. Koreans also come here going back to the Korean War, and we've had Chinese here since we imported them as cheap laborers to build the railroads. In recent years there has been an uptick, but they are mostly wealthy Chinese buying up American real-estate.
I don't know about Russians. But the point is, it is pretty expensive/difficult to come to the United States from Africa and other third-world countries, especially ones that are far away. Millions of immigrants have gone to Europe in recent years from Africa and the Middle-East. The Syrian War caused millions to flood Europe. In Germany most of the children under the age of five are the children of immigrants.
If you think this is an America problem you haven't been paying attention. I would argue that Europe has it much worse than we do.
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Originally Posted by Buckeye77
Wrong, although the formula is not linear, there is a direct relationship between what you pay in and what your benefit will be.
The unknown, of course, is how long you will receive that benefit. If you die before 62, you get nothing, if you live to be a 100, you will have beat the system.
There is a relationship, but if I die tomorrow and I have no children, I get nothing. And as you know, my benefit is not exactly proportional to what I pay. Social-security is not a savings problem. It is not a retirement account. It is a compulsory insurance program whose rules are subject to change.
You rate a president by his consequences that We have to pay today, domestic and foreign. It takes a better understanding of the bigger picture than just the moment and having a better attention span of 3 years. I don't need to be alive in the Soviet Union or China under Stalin and Mao to know how messed up their policies were and the consequences.
FDR was continuous warned that the Japanese were planning to attack the US Pacific fleet in the Hawaiian Islands. Did he have them prepared?
I suggest a book to read. "Roosevelt's Secret War" by Joseph E. Persico. Random House.
Very interesting.
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