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Re: FDR worst president in history!

He didn't act on the over whelming evidence he had available to him, that is my point! He made no attempt to present it to the public either, in fact he used the fact he kept us out of war as his election platform even though he knew war was impossible to avoid! Any history book supports my findings! I have to admit I was shocked when I started researching this subject. It is extremely interesting and very disturbing!
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You need to enlighten me on how his programs had "no effect" on reversing one of the great debacles of President Do Nothing Hoover? How taking drastic measures to reverse bread lines and Americans starving to death had "no effect" and how these policies "extended" the depression?

Do you think that Bush style tax cuts would have stimulated the country out of the death spiral? No, because you have to have an income, before you pay taxes therefore a tax cut would have done nothing. What great GOP program (lets forget Hoover) would have worked to overcome an event that could have been as devastating as a civil war?
http://www.amatecon.com/gd/gdoverview.html

This is just one source.

The fact is, FDR was elected in 1932, the government got worse for a period of years, and the recession didn't end until 1941. It took him NINE years to "
fix" the economy, how can he be praised for that?

FDR appointed a "brain trust" to look at the ways to fix the economy. He followed their initial suggestions, the economy began to improve, then he decided to change course, initiating the depression of '37.

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Generally speaking, the overall aim of the New Deal was essentially conservative. The New Deal sought to save capitalism and the fundamental institutions of American society from the disaster of the Great Depression. Within that framework, however, significant differences between New Deal programs existed. The "first" New Deal (1933-35) tended toward a continuation of "trickle down" policies, albeit better-funded and executed more creatively. Even in the early first New Deal, exceptional programs pointed toward the "second" New Deal's tendency toward "Keynesian" economic policies of revitalizing a mass-consumption based economy by revitalizing the masses ability to consume.
http://iws.ccccd.edu/kwilkison/Onlin...onNewDeal.html

Most of FDR's programs were passed in 33. How did it take 8 years to work if it was so effective?

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World War II ended both the New Deal and the Depression it was attempting to cure.
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