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Subject: Re: FDR - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 12:52:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 18 12:52:47 1984
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, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)

  At the risk (risk? damn the flames, full speed ahead) of misinterpreting
the original statement, I think I may be able to elucidate.

  FDR did many things which do not quite jibe with the free enterprise 
system.  The fact that the country was in a deep depression at the time
allowed him to get away with many things which he couldn't have otherwise.
He set up many social programs which we are still paying for.  His actions
have been used to contenance further degradations in the personal freedoms
and free-enterprise efforts of the citizens of the US.  This may have been
what the original poster was implying.
  I wish now to go on record as saying that FDR was not a "Traitor" to the
United States.  He was, however, a traitor to our economic/political system.
There is a major legal and minor technical difference.  It required the
cooperation of all (or at least a 2/3 majority) of congress and at least
5/9ths of the supreme court to aid him in these efforts, so you cannot
condemn him alone.
  He did do other things that might be considered traitorous.  For one,
a copy of the US Treasury plates used to print "Occupation Dollars" at
the end of WWII was *GIVEN* to the Russians.  This was while joint occupation
was in effect and these bills were in heavy use.  They were then allowed to
print as much as they wished.  The stories I have heard from local observers
is that the bills were handed out in Russian mess lines--get your peas,
get your meat, get your occupation dollars.  Even if the Russians were going
to pay back their war debt (which they never did), there is no reason to
give them the plates.  If they must have money, loan it to them.

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	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

	    A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay.

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