Was Franklin Roosevelt's presiding over the Great Depression a blessing in that he helped end it? Or was his presidency overrated? Or might he even have been responsible for making the Depression go on longer than necessary?

In 1933, 12.8 million people were unemployed. In 1941, 10 million were unemployed.....

:eek:

17 May 1976

Ronald Reagan tells Time magazine: "Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say 'But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.'"

Interestingly enough, we put about 10 million men in uniform after Pearl Harbor.

Magically, unemployment disappeared. :p

I am no real fan of FDR, who sucked up to Joe Stalin, sold half of Europe to the Russians and sent thousands of Soviet citizens to their deaths by returning them to Stalin after WW 2. Also he forced Jewish refugees back to Germany where they were murdered.

But one thing that can be said about Roosevelt is that he was willing to do what was necessary to put americans back to work and jump start the US economy.