Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
hantheguitarman
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2010, 09:57:54 PM » |
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I suppose so.
Personally, I think that it's alright for people with positive economic scores to vote for FDR in 1932 (without retrospect) because FDR's platform was actually pretty fiscally conservative. I mean, FDR campaigned for "immediate and drastic reductions of all public expenditures," "abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating bureaus and eliminating extravagances reductions in bureaucracy," and for a "sound currency to be maintained at all hazards." He even attacked Hoover as a fiscal liberal, not to mention that John Garner said that The Republicans were "leading the country down the path of socialism." Now contrast that with Hoover, who raised taxes, signed the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Tariff, increased deficit spending, etc., and FDR looks like a great candidate. Even Rexford Tuxwell would say that "practically the whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started." Now 1936, 1940, and 1944 are different stories.
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