Comments on: Franklin Roosevelt Rerevisionism

By: Ivan Ivanovich

Ivan Ivanovich — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:14:32 +0000

sjpatejak
“evidently”?
I’ve read the article twice and I can’t find that. Can you provide the quote?

I do disagree with the idea that FDR let the Soviets off so easy. It’s estimated that a million Russians died taking Berlin. Somehow I doubt that FDR and Ike wanted to do that job. We also have this idea that the eastern Europeans would have prefered that we keep the Russians out, but that is a western idea and there were plenty of commies behind what was to become the Iron Curtain in 1945. There still are.

By: sjpatejak

sjpatejak — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:38:16 +0000

Mr. Gregory evidently faults FDR for devoting so much resources to World War II. The Conservative, Winston Chruchill, devoted at least as much of his nation’s resources to the conflict. How much would would the author’s libertarian principles be worth if the Axis had won?

By: Layer Seven

Layer Seven — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:18:39 +0000

FDR and his wife were pure collectivists. His administration was stuffed with soviet spies. FDR set a ticking time bomb called “social security” inside America, much like Jimmy Carter planted the CRA ticking time bomb – Carter and those who came after him nearly destroyed the economy of the world – FDR’s time bomb may yield success. Collectivists must destroy capitalism, but the system they will substitute is pure savagery, as has been demonstrated continuously since WWII.

By: Remington Sloan

Remington Sloan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:52:11 +0000

I don’t much care for FDR either, but I think he got the job done. Even if was done in one of the worst ways possible, he helped our country. I believe we should remove the ‘New Deals’, ‘Square Deals’, or whatever they are. I also believe that we (as people, not government) should begin re-encouraging hard work in our communities. All these ideas of sharing everything and everyone wins a trophy (even if they are a cold hard loser) should quit being instilled in my piers and the next generation. I don’t want my great grand kids to live in the ‘Ideal Future’ of the 30′s/70′s. Everything isn’t going to be crome or white and we’re not all gonna share what we make. Forget it. I’m not going to this happen. We need to remember what an American really is. It’s a hard working free individual, the opposite of communism.

By: Ivan Ivanovich

Ivan Ivanovich — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:09:52 +0000

Patrick writes “It’s difficult to imagine what he could have done to be considered a failure.”

Yes, that’s true. My father, born in 1922, worshiped FDR, as did all of his contemporaries. I’ve often wondered what makes seemingly intelligent people fall for such nonsense. I suppose it the same attitude we see in the movies when the hero gets shot and says, “Oh don’t worry, it’s only a flesh wound”

By: Patrick Mulligan

Patrick Mulligan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:01:01 +0000

It’s hardly a new idea that Roosevelt prolonged the Depression. Austrian economists and Monetarists knew it 50 years ago. It’s become so apparent now that even neo-classical and many neo-Keynsian economists generally acknowledge that it was not Roosevelt’s disastrous New Deal that pulled the United States out of the Depression. Hard to understand, really, how anyone got the idea that a guy who spent 12 years in office while the economy remained stagnant, and didn’t fully recover until years after he mercifully died, even as the rest of the world recovered years earlier, rescued the economy in the first place. It’s difficult to imagine what he could have done to be considered a failure.