FDR didn’t just pull us out of the Depression. He fundamentally altered economic/banking/political rules so it wouldn’t happen again. Several decades ago we started dismantling some of the very protections that FDR created, so crony capitalists could party more. And here we are.

Mar 18, 2020 · 3:37 PM UTC

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I don't take advice or history lessons from people who try to pray away disease and pandemics.
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FEAR NOT, THERE IS HOPE!!!! Patients who've recovered from #COVID19 are donating plasma. Antibodies found in the plasma from patients are believed to be the most effective way reducing the mortality of critically ill patients.
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That’s dead on. Also worth saying, tax credits and low interest loans are a relatively new phenomena for helping the working class. It was pioneered by this generation of Democratic leaders. We used to give people money directly, and we should again.
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FDR failed by trying to economically throttle Japan in the 1930s and thereby engendering its aggression. The US only got out of the Great Depression because it went to war. FDR's social programs were experiments to ward off the growing socialist movement in the US.
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Those regulations he passed were mostly passed by working WITH the banks.
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FDR worsened the great depression, so you are accidentally kind of half rigt
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Welfare: tore the American black families apart.
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#MarianneisRight And here we are, left wondering— How will I pay the mortgage? How will I afford groceries? How can I afford a visit to the Dr.’s office? And on-and on-and on. Marianne is right. It’s time to transition from an economic bottom line..To a humanitarian bottom line.
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The biggest one was Bill Clinton repealing Glass-Steagall Act. A free for all ensued, culminated 2008. Here we are again.
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