From: Xela@yabbs
To: JasonLee@yabbs
Subject: FDR, and "liberals"
Date: Wed Feb  2 02:16:06 1994

JasonLee said:
Huh?  Who's been in charge for most of the past 13 years?  Liberals?  Why 
are we coming out of a recession now?  Is it maybe because a liberal is in 
charge and the programs that Congress can create will pass instead of 
being vetoed?

About the A-Bomb, how much does it matter that a liberal was in charge of 
the country?  Do you think that a right wing leader, faced with scientists 
who said "Yeah, we can build the most powerful, destructive weapon in 
existence," would have done?  "Nah, we'll just stick with the tanks and 
machine guns."  Yeah right!  BTW, FDR also kinda brought the country out 
of the great Depression.

    Well, actually WWII made the US into the industrial giant it was in 
the 50s and 60s, in the process bringing the country out of the Great 
Depression.  FDR happened to be in power at the time.
    Funny thing about politicians...whenever something good happens while 
they are in power, they attribute to their great politicking skills, 
regardless of whether it was attributable to them in the first place.  
Reagan claimed he brought America out of a recession and also lowered the 
price of gas.  The recession, as with Clinton, happened to die just as 
Carter left office.  OPEC, not Reagan, was responsible for lowering gas 
prices.
    Remember, you may be a bleeding-heart liberal or a red-neck right-wing 
fascist, but you're still a politician screwing with peoples lives.  No 
matter who you side with, you're still losing.