lumirgaidin

Telegrams......are they delivered by a hundred year old dude in old-timey clothes?

Damn......really wanted to get a telegram. Thanks for ruining my dreams :-)

Need more Universe, damnit.

This makes me happy. All of this. But especially Potfest.

Oy vey. OK. Yes, my completely unpopular opinion that he was a bastard is just that, an opinion. But hey...I also think The Big Lebowski is an overrated movie, so I'm full of those types of opinions. So here goes...

When the Supreme Court ruled that 11 out of his 16 New Deal agencies were unconstitutional, he basically waged war on them. He attempted to make it so for every Supreme Court judge over 70, the president could appoint an additional judge or justice. When this was rejected in congress, a congress that was MOSTLY MADE UP OF HIS OWN PARTY, he started to campaign against his own party members.

It got so bad and he had so much power that he scared the justices into basically upholding all his regulatory measures.

The New Deal upset the federal budget, created a gigantic deficit for the US during the great depression, and seriously, Keynesian economics is kind of shit. The new deal actually prolonged the great depression. Sure, some aspects of it were OKAY, but mostly it was shit.

Executive order 6102 in 1933 made it illegal for anyone in the US to own gold. Had to be turned over to the federal reserve. The secret service got involved and STOLE gold. This wasn't overturned until 19fucking74.

The National Recovery Act formed code authorities. This allowed large corporations to regulate quality, wages, prices, etc... This in turn helped lead to massive companies that formed monopolies.

During the great depression, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, passed by FDR, mandated farmers to slaughter excess livestock and burn crops. This was to keep prices high and get people to move out of the cities. People were fucking starving.

He covered up the Katyn massacre.

Should I even mention the Japanese internment? Or the refugee German Jews that were turned away from the coast of Florida in 1941 because HE WAS AFRAID OF MILITANT NAZIS AND SPIES...history seems to be repeating itself here, eh?

He promised to desegregate the armed forces and fully reneged on that.

I'm done. Hope I've explained(with poor formatting) why I personally think he was a bastard.