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Best 20th Century President

Best 20th Century President


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Perhaps the most revealing thing about this poll is just what a pathetic list of candidates the Republicans put up over the 100 years (and these are the "winners"). Reagan and Eisenhower were credible presidents, as were three the poster omitted (Roosevelt, the best Republican of the 20th Century; Nixon, who, though flawed, was a strong President and Bush), but the rest of the Republicans were inept, crooked or pathetic (or all of the above.)

Compare this to the list of democrats over the same period: Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton.... like their politics or not, each was a strong President.
 
His popularity was based upon the fact that he got results.

Which is why we never really got out of the depression during his presidency?
 
Which is why we never really got out of the depression during his presidency?

The Supreme Court neutering his New Deal is what kept us in a depression. The US was actually recovering until the Supreme Court decided to cut all the good stuff out.
 
The Supreme Court neutering his New Deal is what kept us in a depression. The US was actually recovering until the Supreme Court decided to cut all the good stuff out.

What? You have it backwards. First the New Deal kept getting ruled unconstitutional, and then FDR got his way. Still he couldn't solve the problems of the economy.
 
What? You have it backwards. First the New Deal kept getting ruled unconstitutional, and then FDR got his way. Still he couldn't solve the problems of the economy.

This was more so because of the backwards monetary policy implemented by the fed at the time. Or so says Milton Friedman....
 
This was more so because of the backwards monetary policy implemented by the fed at the time. Or so says Milton Friedman....

Milton Friedman was wrong.
 
Milton Friedman was wrong.

Nah, i am going to say he was quite right. In reality, this financial crisis would have been far more severe had we raised the federal funds target rate.
 
Nah, i am going to say he was quite right. In reality, this financial crisis would have been far more severe had we raised the federal funds target rate.

So then how does this philosophy explain the brevity of the early 1920s recession?
 
So then how does this philosophy explain the brevity of the early 1920s recession?

It was not based on fraud. The one triggered in 1929, and the one we are dealing with today are primarily fraud driven.
 
What? You have it backwards. First the New Deal kept getting ruled unconstitutional, and then FDR got his way. Still he couldn't solve the problems of the economy.
WWII finally overcame FDR's idiot depression-fixing policies, then he died. But those that bitch about defense spending, should know that at the end of WWII, defense spending was at 75% of the federal budget vs about 21% today. We became quite prosperous after WWII and defense spending was maintained above 50% all during the 50's. Only after the liberal welfare state was created did defense spending dwindle to pathetic levels. Now the percentage is obviously made lower by all the unconstitutional spending in the budget.
 
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WWII finally overcame FDR's idiot depression-fixing policies, then he died. But those that bitch about defense spending, should know that at the end of WWII, defense spending was at 75% of the federal budget vs about 21% today. We became quite prosperous after WWII and defense spending was maintained above 50% all during the 50's. Only after the liberal welfare state was created did defense spending dwindle to pathetic levels. Now the percentage is obviously made lower by all the unconstitutional spending in the budget.

If you believe that spending money on war goods is what fixed the economy, then the stimulus is actually a good idea. Just saying.
 
It was not based on fraud. The one triggered in 1929, and the one we are dealing with today are primarily fraud driven.

Why should that change anything?
 
Why should that change anything?

Based on the severity of these fraud driven recession's, i would believe it changes everything.

BTW, the fraud that i am referring to is relative to securitization.
 
Good, I didn't know s*** about him anyway,just post padding. :mrgreen:

Join me in support of Taft.

The last President to have Facial Hair.
 
Join me in support of Taft.

The last President to have Facial Hair.

Wellll...ok but you think you could cast a vote for good old Walt Harding as a fav? :mrgreen:
 
Wellll...ok but you think you could cast a vote for good old Walt Harding as a fav? :mrgreen:

I already voted for Taft.


Facial hair FTW.
 
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