clb09
09-10-2009, 03:54 PM
I hear people properly call Obama a socialist. But I wonder...how do his socialist policies stack up to the king of 20th century presidential socialism: Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
YouTube - Obama: They Called FDR Socialist, Too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBOka5_joSU)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-altman14-2009aug14,0,6660527.story
Three-quarters of a century ago, nearly identical denunciations were used in an attempt to kill legislation that created one of the country's most popular government programs: Social Security.
Though no one was talking about "death panels" back then, opponents claimed that Social Security would result in massive government control. A Republican congressman from New York, for example, charged: "The lash of the dictator will be felt, and 25 million free American citizens will for the first time submit themselves to a fingerprint test."
Another New York congressman put it this way: "The bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants." A Republican senator from Delaware claimed that Social Security would "end the progress of a great country and bring its people to the level of the average European."
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/jodai/obama_smoking_joint.jpg
http://therealrevo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/fdr_stalin.gif
YouTube - Obama: They Called FDR Socialist, Too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBOka5_joSU)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-altman14-2009aug14,0,6660527.story
Three-quarters of a century ago, nearly identical denunciations were used in an attempt to kill legislation that created one of the country's most popular government programs: Social Security.
Though no one was talking about "death panels" back then, opponents claimed that Social Security would result in massive government control. A Republican congressman from New York, for example, charged: "The lash of the dictator will be felt, and 25 million free American citizens will for the first time submit themselves to a fingerprint test."
Another New York congressman put it this way: "The bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants." A Republican senator from Delaware claimed that Social Security would "end the progress of a great country and bring its people to the level of the average European."
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/jodai/obama_smoking_joint.jpg
http://therealrevo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/fdr_stalin.gif