FDR: Grilled Millionaires Speech

FDR takes on some of the charges from his opponents with a bit of humor in a speech to students at the University of North Carolina.

December 1938

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News & Politics

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• FDR
• politics
• populism

[bon1042]

scrambled eggs... of course... :)  if only we have an FDR now !

[jumpbacktome]

If people had left Social Security the way FDR had made it, and if they had left the Glass-Steagall Act intact, our country would be a very different place... one that isn't so controlled by these millionaires. We need another FDR to "grill" them. :)

[jumpbacktome]

@imadizzy1 Yes, but most of his important policies dealt with regulation.

[imadizzy1]

@jumpbacktome social security, the WPA, The tennessee valley authority- who are you kiddding? He increased the size of government in a good way

[deathball751]

@bon1042 I want to become president and introduce the "New" New Deal! :D

[jumpbacktome]

@cooljj82 Big government referring to size, or big government referring to regulation? Obama supports big actual size, while FDR supported the latter option, which business hated.

[cooljj82]

@jumpbacktome Those millionaires where big fans of FDR. Why do you think Wall Street gives so much money to Obama? Big government has to borrow alot, which makes those millionaire bankers even richer. They could care less what policy the leader puts forward, as long as he spends deficit budgets.

[jumpbacktome]

@unclepic1 Your posts are hard for me to read because of the bad punctuation, so please forgive me if I misunderstand.

I am blaming "people like you" because many of the country's problems are because of "people like you" -- that is, affluent millionaires who influence the government's policies. Not every millionaire has bad intentions, but many have pushed dangerous policies for years. FDR was not the first president to use policy to regulate business.

[jumpbacktome]

@rangers94ism Are you suggesting that more of the laissez-faire stupidity that brought on the Depression in the first place would have helped? What an asinine comment. FDR brought people hope when they needed it, and his policies effectively remained in place following WWII to bring the most prosperous decades this country has ever known.

[rangers94ism]

@jumpbacktome Yeah right, FDR sucked as the president. How long did he get that depression to last? The best thing that FDR did as president was die.

[redreaper2020]

@jumpbacktome yea, but we'll see armed revolution before that happens... :(

[jiouoiuuu]

At least he could spew his poison with a smile in his voice and without a teleprompter.