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Originally posted by Dostoevsky
My choice for president would be any one of the Framers of our Constitution. Those guys really understood what it took to protect private citizens and allow them to live their lives without interference from government and politicians. 200+ years later that document is still holding up against the slow but persistent erosion of freedom that we allow our elected leaders to facilitate. All politicians today are pretty much the same to me. I suppose I'm a reactionary but I wish government would play a minimalist role and leave people the hell alone.
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Hear hear, I'd pick Jefferson, myself. Franklin was a bit of a kook, but I'd take him over any over any president that I can remember (Reagan onward).
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First of all Roosevelt's fiscal actions did not pull us out of the depression, they actually made it worse. The War pulled us out.
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I can't agree. I'm unsure of your source, but I suspect you're quoting from Jim Powell's book. Powell stands alone in his assessment of FDR, and, as a member of a Libertarian Institute, he certainly has an Agenda (with a big capital A).
For example, see this list:
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/...successes.html
Now, I'm not saying that you should trust me more than Powell. But, if you're relying on a single source for your information about FDR and the Great Depression, you're selling yourself short. Read a few different sources, conservative and liberal, and decide for yourself.