FDR "Let Me Warn You" (1936).m4v

This is a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his reelection campaign in 1936. It's sounds like a perfect sarcastic description of the political gamble being played with common people's lives, that is still going on these days as well ...


"Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion that says 'Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die.

'We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything'"

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[Max Webster]

can i use this for a website

[eedive]

Certainly you can. It is the people's property after-all. Not mine.

[uilliacc]

Over-dosed on Rush Limbaugh and all the other right-wing jerk offs who think hatefulness passes for intelligence, and rudeness passes for enlightenment. I have an M.A. in History, an M.Ed in Adult education. I've retired from teaching and own my own business. I've never recieved welfare and I don't live in my mothers basement... And I don't feel like wasting my time on the hateful little sheeple like you who do...

[Frank Bennett]

Sounds like he's talking about modern-day Republicans.

[meccaturbo]

FDR talks like a weird fucker.

[bucklaw]

More than two years ago the people of BP made a commitment to the Gulf and ever since then we have been trying to evade it, with each moment we breath we think of ways to put a friendly face on our wrong doings and it is working, since you are watching this commercial.

[Butberp2836y1]

Lets just agree that under Roosevelt's administration he would have been expunged. Not including the public humiliation either.

[Sommer Sechang]

Fdr is my hero and fala is such a loyal dog.

[Valagnar]

We need FDR today!

[uilliacc]

Including Ronnie Reagan whose BIG Keynesian boost when he more than doubled the Pentagon budget. Everytime supply-side has failed for the last 30 years, some part and some form of Keynesian econ. theory has been applied to fix it. Dems put it into social programs, GOP throws more money at the military or starts a war somewhere...

[uilliacc]

"The Military Industrial Complex" was not formed until we were well into WWII. The phrase "Military Industrial Complex" was was coined by Dwight Eisenhower in the 50's after it really became apparent that the industry was forming.. around government money.. Putting government money into the economy to spur growth is the definition of Keynesian economics.. So you don't have a clue. Every GOP President since Reagan has resorted to Keynes, they just throw the money at the pentagon instead.

[marlette782]

Kenynesian economics are a failure. The depression didn't end until Roosevelts third term, when he created the military industrial complex