You people have no critical thinking ability what-so-ever.

The New Deal had little to no effect on the markets, save new regulatory commissions to help the market be within the law instead of “robber baron capitalism”.

But, through-out all of FDR’s presidency the unemployment rate never dropped below 14%.

It’s disgusting that liberals are trying to revise history, when liberals in the 1960s even exclaimed FDR’s New Deal a failure.

Just as LBJ’s War on Poverty is a failure, his Great Society is a failure.

Just like Obama will be a failure.

Keep it up ABC. I refuse to watch your show because of the slanted lies. It’s about time the public picks up on this and makes the nessessary changes to there information choices.

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com look for the ADDEMDUM which is the second part to this execellent documentory. Truth will help us understand.

Mr. Will’s …..we have the nessessary tools to disprove your BS. We can research what you say withiin minuites to see if your are lying or telling the truth. However the truth has been hard to come by for some time now.

YOU ARE NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE….THAT GOES FOR U2 COOKIE.

Time to retire.

Can someone please tell me why all these old farts are the ones doing these shows???? they are out of touch with what is really going on. Doesn’t any retire any more?????

Any “failure” from the New Deal was still more of a success than what the George Will-types of that day would or could ever have accomplished. My only criticism of the New Deal is that it wasn’t aggressive enough to undo forever the parasitic form of capitalism that drove our economy into the ground then and is doing the same now.

I hope that Obama will take a page from FDR’s playbook and restore the sort of social programs (Work Progress Administration, etc.) that FDR used to put Americans back to work and to help them support their families.

It will take policies like those that brought us out of the Republican Great Depression of 1929 to resolve our current economic woes. Let’s hope that President Obama is able to get as much cooperation from Congress as he needs to push his agenda and get America back on track.

Where there’s a Will, there’s a braying jackass…

…who Will bray all the way to the glue factory.

We babyboomers have enjoyed the benefits of all the liberal values that were born in the New Deal. It was the years of the Robber Barons and their greed that put our country into the Great Depression then, and it’s the greed of the oligarchs today that has run our country into a ditch very much as what was done in the years leading up to the Great Depression.

I don’t know what you think, but I was raised to believe that while we are here it is our duty to leave the world a better place that it was when we arrived. I was able to succeed based on the help and work of those that fought for the equality, education, and the respect for the work of every man and woman and the belief that as I was better off than my parents, my kids and grandkids should be better off than I.

We’ve lost that here in America. Maybe it’s Globalization, where the value of one’s work is being compared with workers around the world, or maybe it all the cheap crap coming in that we are buying up and consuming.

Either way, I worry about what kind of future and opportunities my kids and grandkids will have.

How about getting back to the New Deal or creating a New New Deal?

“If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” Warrren Buffet

Which begs the question, what’s worse, creeping socialism where we all have a hand in making live better for everyone, or creeping oligarchy, where we all have to suffer for the benefit of a few?

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Warren Buffet

George Will, only a rightwinger and richboy could sit and argue with what FDR did. People were hurting, out of work, some even selling their kids or abandoning them with richer folk hoping someone else could provide for them even if they could not. Who cares if you think the books could have looked better, FDR helped people.
His policies were a damn sight better than the rich-republican policies that GOT US in the mess to begin with. And they were better than anything the republicans came up with for 3 years after the crash before FDR got installed.

Obviously, George Will would complain if you hung him with a golden rope.

Another thing….WWII almost bankrupted America. It didn’t save us economically. All that spending on equipment that was basically WORTHLESS to our economy once the war was over. THe fact that the whole world was shot-up…and most of the other economies were destroyed or crippled…. That allowed us to take advantage of our new position.
And we used our NewDeal/WWII manufacturing prowess in the AFTERMATH of WWII that was so beneficial to our economy. WWII managed to kill off a large chunk of our population. Many, many more were crippled and in need of extra help. The GI bill for returning Vets was a great boon to the economy and middle class living conditions.

So, the War? It sure was a milestone, no getting around it’s effects. But a creator of wealth? No. Lots of things changed, lots of the future was altered by the War…but did WWII end the depression? How? Where did the WAR put 10k in every families purse, or how did the WAR suddenly make poor people healthy and wealthy? It prob. made some war profiteers wealthy. And it altered the landscape. But it did not put dollars in avg. americans pocket. It did not put a chicken in any pot. In fact, americans were scrimping and saving and rationing and tightening belts, and doing without the men of the family and getting their men killed and coming home crippled. So much of what we built and sweated for in that war ended up on a sea bottom or a shell crater…the War did not create prosperity or fix our fiscal problems.

Really, George, I expected you to have a far better memory. Then again I thought for sure you were an original member of the Old Right.

-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud

Aha! So now signing statements are good! Proving the truth of my post at 39.

A tool is neither good nor bad. It’s the tool’s wielder (or non-wielder, depending upon circumstance) who must have conscience.

This had been a previously unexploited gray area in presidential perogative for some time. If this proves to be a presidential overreach, it will take more than one administration to do so. We must have a democratic calibration. We now know how far wrong one can go; we’ll have to wait and see if the use of signing statements is a bad idea, or simply one mis-used by a single president.

Noam Chomsky said in 1995: “In the early 1970s, about 90% of capital in international exchanges was for investment and trade, 10% for speculation. By 1990, those figures had reversed, and a 1993 estimate is that only 5% is related to “real economic transactions” (Wilfried Guth of the Deutsche Bank, who argues further that these processes are undermining free trade, as do others).”

Would not Congress have to approve any such? Or is this something that could be done by Executive Order? And can you regulate pork out of spending bills?

Congress would use CBO scoring to determine what is appropriate, to, well, appropriate, while the President would rely on OMB numbers. If the OMB’s (highly-subjective, in the past administration) estimates are substantially lower, the administration would have his congressional surrogates soon trumpeting his case on C-Span.

In this climate, opponents would be on the political hot-seat, to make a stronger case for increased spending.