SmarterthanYou
rebel
does this mean that you're looking for Biden to imprison an entire demographic of our population????
Could President Biden be the second coming of FDR and Lyndon B. Johnson?
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
Biden could be the bastard love child of FDR and LBJ.........
Well, if he does,....one group we KNOW he wont lock up are the Chinese we have living and working here. No way...no how. Now those evil White Europeans,.....thats a whole nuther matter.
Starting to think The D party picked up their ideas on racial politics by reading Charles Manson's crazy " Helter Skelter" plan....
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
And his second term was one of the most disastrous in modern US history. From getting involved in Vietnam, to the collapse of his Great Society program, the Model City program that ended with the Watts riots, to civil unrest, LBJ's term was horrid.
But not before the US was spending huge sums on preparations for war as well as having gotten huge contracts for war materials from other nations like China, Britain, and France. Those are what restored the US economy, not some make-work program like the CCC or WPA. That's what got FDR reelected.
The Great Society was doing fine. Johnson turned out to be completely right about civil rights, but there was (and still is) a lot of blow back against the Democrats for getting civil rights for Blacks. Johnson could not figure out a way out of Vietnam.
You think China was buying a bunch of stuff from the USA? China was collapsing. France had just surrendered to the Germans, so was buying nothing, and defaulting on all their loans. Britain was like China, not buying anything, only looking for handouts. No, it was huge government spending that ended the Great Depression. That huge government spending was called WWII.
Drummie123
Verified User
Anyone who wants a serious and close to accurate understanding of the role and the importance of JoeBama needs to read this brief and 'to the point' explanation.
It dots all the "i's" and crosses all the "T's" and you won't likely find a rationale which makes more sense.
And it even "feels" right.
https://theconservativetreehouse.co...ut-those-specific-calls-we-keep-them-private/
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
The Great Society program was a disaster. LBJ declared a war on poverty. He expanded the welfare state dramatically, introduced massive public housing projects. He got federal spending and involvement in education greatly expanded. Medicaid and Medicare were introduced (supposed to cost no more than $1 billion after ten years but topped nearly $10 and went off the rails in cost thereafter.
Public housing efforts ended with things like the Watts riots where enraged people forced into this housing burned it to the ground. Now those high rise public housing projects sit mostly abandoned.
As federal involvement in education has increased the quality of public education in the US has decreased.
Johnson got us into Vietnam on a lie (the Gulf of Tonkin incident) and expanded the war there massively. He had no coherent plan to win so the US was mired in what seemed an endless conflict.
Affirmative action and much of the original civil rights movement has turned into a new form of racism.
Yes, China was buying stuff from the US. The US set up CAMCO in Hangzhou for example to assemble US made military aircraft in China. Other factories were set up likewise. The US was selling China in the late 30's millions upon millions in arms and equipment not to mention staples like food. That Japan was slowly winning their war there doesn't change that the US (and the US was hardly alone, even Nazi Germany was selling stuff to the Chinese)
The Germans were going to reorganize and train the Nationalist Chinese Army into 80 divisions on German standards. They started with 8 and then started another 12 that got to various stages of training before the Germans got into their war in Europe.
The French prior to being defeated dumped huge quantities of money into buying US war goods. In fact, Douglas Aircraft was setting up a factory in Algeria to assemble their DB-7 bomber for the French. The Belgians, Norwegians, Finns, etc., were all buying US goods too. And, of course, Britain was buying massive quantities of goods and took over most of the contracts of these other nations after they fell.
At the same time, the US was massively expanding their own capacity for war. The US was building bases and infrastructure around the world in anticipation of entering the war. Tens of billions were spent in the late 30's and into 1940 - 41 towards building factories, bases, shipyards, etc., for war production. From about 1936 on, the US was expanding military preparations for a war and not by small amounts. That money didn't go into more guns and planes so much as the infrastructure to make them and base them where they'd be needed. That's when the US economy started to boom, not when FDR was spending on make-work projects in the early 30's.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
FDR and LBJ were at least alive when they were President...none of this Weekend with Biden shit we're seeing now.
China was being invaded by Japan, and had been very poor right before that. They could not feed their own people. They were buying NOTHING from us. We were sending them aid for free, or we were giving them money to buy from us (either way, we were buying from us).
WWII was a war, but it was also, accidentally, a massive government stimulus program. The US Government borrowed huge amounts of money, and spent it on huge amounts of weapons, that were effectively destroyed.
FDR died in office. LBJ was so sick he could not run for a third term.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
we used to have another poster who would add irrelevant garbage to threads thinking that it won him arguments......I don't remember his name any more.......that makes two things you have in common with him.......