Franklin D Roosevelt

Was the New Deal a mistake?

What class is this for?

The working class, obviously!

Economics in Japan: 1991-2008

RIP

"I'll run your ass over."

http://weblogs.amny.com/news/local/tracker/blog/fdr1-thumb.jpg

out of shot: the child slaves operating the pedals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R898wegx6Y

went here today, NYC residence for 1908-32... worth an hour's tour.

http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/house-history/

A Traitor to His Class is v entertaining

the best of the conventional biographies

coincidentally I finished Doris Kearns Goodwin's fun but broad bio last Saturday; it's better on Eleanor.

presuming i get up early tomorrow, i'm going to take a day trip up to the Prez Library/Home in Hyde Park. My FDR-idolator friend says not to miss Top Cottage (ie "the fuck house").

was recently reading some of my great great grandfathers journal - he met & shook hands w/ FDR as gov of ny in 1931, p cool

I enjoyed reading a lot of the wartime cables and memos, and also seeing Eleanor's margarine ad.

http://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/08/25/why-a-first-lady-cashed-in-eleanor-roosevelt-the-equal-rights-of-margarine/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HY8vxYX78s

uh what

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GHsp9uGnMO0/Uaqlsf5e12I/AAAAAAAAJ2w/8eaKpC8txE4/s1600/warm-springs-DVD-Cover.jpg

that small parallel bars fdr down there

that was when he competed on Superstars iirc

look at the proportions of his shirt, tie, and pants

i'll never forget the candleside chats given by FDR's homunculus

is Cynthia Nixon playing Eleanor or one of his chippies?

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor -- these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small business man, the investments set aside for old age -- other people's money -- these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in.

[...]

Throughout the Nation, opportunity was limited by monopoly. Individual initiative was crushed in the cogs of a great machine. The field open for free business was more and more restricted. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

I listen to this every couple of months before sit-ups:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RP_8bwhNVw

and, well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3RHnKYNvx8

"i welcome their hatred" is kind of an all-time line, like he might as well have done the degeneration x "suck it" gesture while he was saying this