On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:50:41 -0700, Tom Cod wrote:
> Neither was FDR, Hoover had already tried the shop worn laissez faire
> solution for almost three and a half years before FDR came in. It is
> true, though, that a wide section of the "business community" or
> capitalist class was very friendly to fascism right up to Pearl Harbor.
FDR was also interested in Fascism, but he never could figure out how
Mussolini made it work, so he turned to the Communists. Their ideas
didn't work either, so the Anglophilic son of a ***** turned to the tried
and true answer: get in the biggest war you can find.


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