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GulfCoast66

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21. And the alternative? Losing the war.

Reply to Trumpocalypse (Reply #20)

Thu Aug 1, 2019, 12:34 AM

Aug 2019

What he would have done with the system he built will never be known. He was dead.

So criticizing the actions he took for what it became after he was dead seems disingenuous.

Unless you are criticizing his actions during the war, when he was actually alive.

Not discounting the power of the MIC. But Ike deserves the blame. He saw and warned of the power of MIC but did nothing to stop it when he had the power to do so. Weak sauce.

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Were FDR's economic policies "too socialist" for anyone here? [View all] Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2019 OP

Yes. Social Security/Medicare makes old people lazy! leftstreet Jul 2019 #1

find a job you like and you can do it forever! rampartc Jul 2019 #2

I like all his programs and also those signed in by LBJ like Medicare. GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #3

What does socialism mean to you? Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2019 #4

That is not what socialism means. GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #6

Exactly right +++ comradebillyboy Jul 2019 #7

Great post, Gulf Coast Poiuyt Jul 2019 #11

Sorry I trust Chomsky more than you ChubbyStar Jul 2019 #16

I never asked you to trust me. Hell, you don't even know me! GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #17

I disagree. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2019 #23

Precisely JHB Aug 2019 #25

Socialism is not government control of production. flaval Aug 2019 #26

That's a difference with no distinction... GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #27

The National Recovery Administration was terribly anti-competitive Jose Garcia Jul 2019 #5

Some would say that FDR Trumpocalypse Jul 2019 #8

Agree with your first 2 criticism. But not the third. GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #12

FDR built the military industrial complex Trumpocalypse Aug 2019 #18

Well, he had a global war against Nazis and imperial Japan to win... GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #19

Not saying that Trumpocalypse Aug 2019 #20

And the alternative? Losing the war. GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #21

Not the point Trumpocalypse Aug 2019 #22

FDR's economic policies were probably too racist for most people here Spider Jerusalem Jul 2019 #9

Yeah. True. But he had to have the southern democrats. GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #13

not for this guy and onethatcares Jul 2019 #10

Without Social Security Retirement we would be in serious financial trouble. trof Jul 2019 #14

FDR saved capitalism Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 #15

Ironically, he was excoriated as a corporatist and sell-out by the socialists and populists Recursion Aug 2019 #24

Right. It astounds me that so many on the left push this idea. GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #28

FDR left large swaths of the country's population out of his policies. Blue_true Aug 2019 #29