Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2009

Conservative Finally Making Some Sense

Conservatives/repubs should take some friendly advice from Conrad Black. He is saying that all these attempts by the right to say world war II  got us out of the depression and not FDR.

"It is, to say the least, unrigorous for current spokespeople of the intelligent Right to claim that Roosevelt’s peacetime elimination of unemployment was a failure, that war-mongering was his real antidote to economic depression, and that the grateful electors of the most successful politician in the country’s history were hoodwinked, as FDR would have said, “again and again and again.” Instead of trying to debunk FDR, Amity Shlaes, Holman Jenkins, and even Jim Powell should complete his liberation from leftist kidnappers and claim him for themselves. He was a reformer, and also one of the very greatest conservatives in American history."

He makes sense. Now the right needs to listen.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Still Attacking New Deal/Roosevelt

The repubs attack on the new deal continues as they are now saying that Roosevelt caused the depression. Again, dems need to attack this vehemently. Why? They are trying to attack obama/dems by not attacking them directly.

Here is Steve Austria's comment on the depression: 

"When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression," Austria said. "He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That's just history."

Dems need to stop it now b/c the image of the new deal will need to be intact later.