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2006-11-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by .com 2006-11-24 04:21|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I must say FDR was a briiliant leader. And, I've been a life long Pub. This man had all the qualities required to solve tremendous problems in the 1930's and 1940's. No wonder he was idolized by my parents and grandparents. They went through something beyond trying times. And FDR was out front cheering and leading. Too bad we don't have even a tinge of that today. We need some leadership too.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-11-24 13:44|| 2006-11-24 13:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The EU is also based on "four freedoms," which predictably bear no resemblance to ours: the free movement of goods, labor, services, and capital. Homo economicus, the New European Man.

I can't forgive FDR's court-packing scheme. He threatened to expand the Supreme Court from nine judges who respected Constitutional limits on federal power, to fifteen who'd give a pass to FDR's massive welfare state "reforms." The threat alone was enough to make the nine see things his way, and that's how most of our bloated entitlement bureaucracy came into being.

True to Democrat form, FDR employed threats and subverted the Constitution to get his way, with unintended (but foreseeable) consequences that did more harm than good in the long-run. FDR may have won WWII, he helped make it damn near impossible to win any others after that.

Posted by exJAG 2006-11-24 18:31|| 2006-11-24 18:31|| Front Page Top

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