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	How FDR Viewed Americans

bilber99

9-19-2007 11:20 AM

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bilber99 says:

FDR developed the idea of buying votes, but never paid the cost because he was smart enough to devices like Social Security that wouldn't explode until decades after his death, and he was lucky enough to have WWII to end the depression.

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