Dick Morris TV; Lunch ALERT! FDR & Obama Compared

[sexyloser1128]

It was conservatives in Congress that forced FDR to cut spending that caused the second drop in the economy.

[3martijns]

Few additional facts:

FDR Stole Everybody's Gold by Requiring it be Given to the Government for a Fraction of its Worth.

Almost Every Fed Gov program is Anti-Constitution.

obammieDeathcare is a Gateway Drug to Fatal Narcotics.

Commie prezzie is a George Soros Puppet.

FDR was a 'progressive'. Progressivism is Killing America.

[cloudshe]

great perspective, dick. i've often wondered why 2 1/2 years ago prez obama didn't put our economic well-being on the front burner. thanks to his ineptitude we are deeper in the kim chee than when he was elected. and NOW he finds we need to focus on it? how can americans forgive him for this irresponsibility? this was a no-brainer, he has failed miserably and we are suffering for it.

keep up the good work, this guy needs to go back to the peanut farm like the last putz

[Dukeoftruth]

Social Security is the biggest scam ever forced on the American people.

Now our SS number has become our national ID number.

[ElNeedle]

Roosevelt defaulted on the debt. The paper curency were debt instruments. (Modern Federal Reserve Notes still are obligations to pay under 12 USC 411.) The obligation on those debts was to pay gold. He defaulted on those obligations when he "went off the gold standard." "Going off the gold standard" means that there is a default on debt-based currency, and sovereign immunity is used to prevent people from going to court to enforce the debt obligation to pay gold (See 31 USC 5118(b & c).)

[torehit]

Dick, please do not associate FDR's massive expansion of government with conservatism. FDR's programs should be explained as a big step toward this country's demise.

[LeeFoxRox]

Far too kind to FDR and his disastrous policies.

The only thing that saved FDR from being a political pariah was WWII.

Otherwise, his destructive politics would have been revealed as the anti-free market socialist evils they were.

[lesechang]

Dick is wrong on almost every point except one: yes, the fear factor is real.

Roosevelt's policies were never "conservative." The economy was beginning to recover as he took office automatically.

National Recovery Act -- govt program - hardly "conservative"

Fanny Mae/Freddy Mac -- govt programs - hardly "conservative"

Social Security Act -- govt Ponzi scheme which is blowing up right now and those under 55 will never see it.

Building Unions -- evil thugs.

Roosevelt was a communist. like O.

[BRowe99]

The book Dick refers to at 5:54 is

"The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" by Amity Shlaes

(he calls her Amity Shayles)

[rbyt100]

Nice insight. Like the wk/end format as well.

[michaelSBECS]

Good golly, do we ever need historical/political perspective. Thank you Dick Morris, I learned something of significance today.

[WrightvWrong]

"FDR & Obama Compared"

Common sense social / economic engineering is nessesary for the benefit of everyone in our nation.

A totaly free market is detrimental to our welfare as individuals, as families and as a nation.

[Dukeoftruth]

@WrightvWrong define "common sense"

[WrightvWrong]

My use of the term 'common sense' in this case means advancing the quality of life for everyone. For instance, business success shouldn't supersede employee success or harm our nation.

Yet under the current operation of the Global Free Market, it does. @Dukeoftruth

[WrightvWrong]

Common sense = doing what is good in everything for the 'whole' rather than the 'few' while also including the 'few' fairly.

[pbchg9]

How is setting up a Ponzi Scheme like Social Security and forcing people to join a union based on a majority vote "conservative"? That doesn't sound like your pro-personal freedom to me.

It's amazing how hypocritical we can be when we don't stop and think about the 5 TRUE conservative principles: 1) Limited Gov through constitution 2) Personal liberty coupeled with personal responsibility 3) Free market 4) Strong national defense 5) Fiscal responsiblity

[hawkermustang]

Sounds like a big government liberal screw up to me.

[radagastthe3rd]

9 and a half minutes is beyond my attention span ^^. Short and sweet is the best way to go Mr. Morris.

[smileyyeah]

We love Eileen's advice. Dick Morris you need to listen to that wise woman more.

[mikestheman3]

Dick I like ya, but now it's time to start broadcasting obama's ineligibility to be POTUS, no one else on FOX has the balls to say a single word about his Conn. SSN, fake birth certificate on the white house site, plus everything else about the mystery man, how about you?

[Mopar21277]

Excellent Mr. Morris, at 1st I was scared that you were going to equate Obama w/FDR, they couldn't be more different. FDR's greatest early legislation was the GLASS-STEGALL Act, which reigned the banks in and kept them from running wild. Obama is a Wall St Puppet and has let them continue to run wild and continued the massive bailouts of these zombie banks.

We need to backcharge the banks for the bailouts and create massive New Deal Infrastructure programs to put Americans back to work!

[order9066]

John T Flynn's "The Roosevlt Myth" is also a good read.

[iknownothingnow]

Good analysis Mr. Morris. Excellent points!

You may remember at a DNC dinner that Obama compared himself to the “conservative” FDR; proud to be like him, wresting with an economic crisis. And yes, FDR wanted social engineering, so too Obama.

Isn’t it interesting that republicans such as senator McConnell want to give Obama even more power. Guess that’s because Obama is a conservative and the whispers are that there will get a statue of Obama in Washington D.C.

[JimofAustin1]

Since when was 'price fixing' conservative?

[MrsSarb]

@JimofAustin1 Nixon tried that.

[NiemandBinich]

We should call this time the Great Repression; a Carter style recession being used to foist their foreign agenda upon the American People. To quote Rahm Emanuel, "Never let a crisis to go to waste."