iamthebandfanman
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:01 PM
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everyone , i encourage you to turn it on c-span and watch Rep.Phil Gingrey(R-GA) as apparently our history books are wrong. the new deal didnt work!
sorry guys, but apparently the last 70 years have all been a lie!
i hafta suggest you all studying up on the new version of our countrys past, via republicans.
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:01 PM
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1. is that why FDR is considered the greatest pres by people over 65? |
iamthebandfanman
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:02 PM
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2. oh no! hes still a great president |
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even professor phil gingrey agrees with that sentiment...
but the new deal didnt work!
and his proof is that the head of the treasury at the time didnt like it.
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:03 PM
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That was because he repealed Prohibition. :evilgrin:
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:04 PM
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4. which lead to the Baby Boom generation ... |
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Fri Feb-13-09 06:16 PM
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15. FDR was still a piddling 3-termer when I was born (Oct '44). |
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It never before occurred to me to blame my conception on him.
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Fri Feb-13-09 08:36 PM
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18. aw, come on ... I was trying to make a joke about |
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how alcohol was responsible for the conception many of the "boomers" ...
:)
:toast: :beer:
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Fri Feb-13-09 08:01 PM
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17. He did not repeal prohibition. It took an amendment to |
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the Consititution to do that. The XXI Amendment repealing the XVIII amendment was introduced into Congress Feb 20 1933.
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Jackpine Radical
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Fri Feb-13-09 09:47 PM
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20. Aw, sure, get all technical on me. |
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:05 PM
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5. He still signed the unconstitutional Marijuana Tax Act into law |
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He drops a few spots on my greatest list based on that.
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:09 PM
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8. has there been any president |
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whos made progress with marijuana in the reverse direction?
cause if you judged them all on drug stances, thered probably be NO great president ;) hehe
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:13 PM
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10. This isn't about drug policy |
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This was something that was unconstitutional. It violated the fifth amendment because in order to obtain the tax or license you would have to have marijuana but having marijuana incriminated a person that didn't have the tax stamp.
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Fri Feb-13-09 06:17 PM
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16. Well, George Washington grew hemp. |
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That's gotta count for something.
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:05 PM
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6. He just said "infrastruction" |
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I hate ad hominem, but I do believe Republican politicians have been spending too much time around Dubya.
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Fri Feb-13-09 09:48 PM
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22. That's their stratergery, I think nt |
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Fri Feb-13-09 10:04 PM
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24. Must be. I've misunderestimated them. |
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:08 PM
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7. Can't wait for one to suggest he only kept getting re-elected due to ACORN |
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and that's why someone had to put term limits into the Constitution.
Even worse than if one of them said it is how many would still believe it's true.
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:10 PM
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9. Southern Republicans are among the lowest life forms on this planet. |
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:14 PM
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11. Is he also insisting that Herbert Hoover was a Progressive? |
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I heard some clowns on Faux News make that claim -- that HH may have been a Republican, but he wasn't a good Conservative!!!
Too bad this guy wasn't around at the time to let people know The New Deal wasn't working. It would have saved a whole lot of people from voting for FDR over and over and over...
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Fri Feb-13-09 08:43 PM
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19. I toured Herbert Hoover's library in Iowa last spring |
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according to what I learned there, Hoover went to his grave slamming the New Deal and feeling smug that he had outlived all the New Dealers. Sounds like a typical Republican to me.
And, I agree with you it's too bad this buy wasn't around in the 30s - my grandpa wouldn't wasted his time taking that PWA (yes, PWA not WPA) job and my uncle could have skipped his time in the CCC (of course then he wouldn't have been able to take what he learned there to run a very successful business).
I swear, my mom and her sisters are all going to have strokes if these clowns don't stop dissing FDR. Do they think no one is left who can remember the Depression?
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Fri Feb-13-09 11:49 PM
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27. My dad was also an "alum" of the CCC |
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He was always very proud of that chapter of his life, as are his children. It was a great opportunity and a big adventure for a young man, what with being sent to work on projects in Washington State, his first time outside his home state of Illinois.
The museum at Virginia's famous Skyline Drive (along the Shenendoah Valley) devotes a good bit of space to the CCC workers who helped build the roads, the pathways, and the beautiful little stone walls all along the roadway that keep tourists from falling down the mountains. All that was government spending that put people to work in dire times and left a legacy that has served a national treasure and its millions of visitor for generations... exactly what we need these days!
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Sat Feb-14-09 12:10 AM
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28. My dad, born in 1911, was also in the CCC. I believe he was a |
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Sergeant.
I have NO idea what he did. He didn't talk about it much.
I see a lot of CCC work here in NW Arkansas. They were busy, thank FDR!
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Fri Feb-13-09 04:15 PM
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12. Congressman Phil - the pride of Georgia |
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someone seriously needs to go arrest that guy's parents.
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Fri Feb-13-09 05:04 PM
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13. What part of our Social Security did not worK???? Remember |
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Regan took money from SS and left IOUs in place. Congress(Both houses) have swiped from SS Fund over the years.
SS works fine and Americans appreciate it.
Social Security has worked just fine. Dishonest Leaders have done everything they can to get rid of SS Medicare Medicaid--any form of Safety Net.
FDR saved Capitalism and also saved Democracy and no Democrat should ever forget it.
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Fri Feb-13-09 05:34 PM
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14. Between the lies and rewriting history, I can't imagine what planet |
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these Republican think we are living on. If they weren't so good at f*&!ng everything up, they would be a hilarious comedy show.
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Fri Feb-13-09 09:48 PM
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21. I know. This has been one of their speaking points of late |
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Do they really think everyone is as ignorant of history as they are?
Wait, don't bother answering that, I know the answer. Idiots.
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Fri Feb-13-09 09:49 PM
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23. Reaganomics don't work n/t |
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Fri Feb-13-09 10:07 PM
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I liked that mustache he used to have. When he shaved it, he lost his only redeeming quality...
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Fri Feb-13-09 10:17 PM
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26. They have calculated that enough people who lived |
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through the Great Depression are now dead that it can be safely forgotten and history re-written.
They trot out the same discredited, flawed reasoning from the usual right-wing (and ironically misnamed) "Think Tanks", label anything that might work "Socialism" and hope that something sticks to the wall.
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