On Jul 14, 12:55=A0pm, E. Barry Bruyea <lobbyi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:25:40 -0400, Horatio Fudruckerton <H...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >The only reason why there was a depression in the first place was
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> >Democrats who controlled the executive and legislative branches at the
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> >refused to allow the capitalist republicans to do more business with
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> >good friend Hitler and his right wing fascist Nazi party.
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> What business? Hitler was not in power yet. =A0But, what the hell, don't
> let facts interfere with your posts.
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. In France there was a slogan popular in fa****onable bourgois
circles, "Better Hitler than Blum", a mentality that informed their
cowardly capitulation in June 1940. But to be fair, much of the whole
milieu aroud, not only the America Firsters but the "mainstream"
Republican crowd around Taft, Dewey (and later Joseph Kennedy) could
be summed in the phrase "Better Hitler than Roosevelt".
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