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In reply to the discussion: Five years of Obama and what do we get? [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)FDR gave us the First National Social Security NOT advocating for cuts to cost of living adjustments to Social Security.
FDR gave us Unemployment insurance NOT a one year payment of unemployment in exchange for billions of dollars in tax give aways to the uber rich and bailouts.
FDR gave us Glass-Steigel NOT watered down crappy controls on criminal banksters.
FDR gave us the FDIC NOT give aways through the Fed to the uber rich called Quantitative easing.
FDR gave us foreclosure freezes not minor fines to banks for conning everyone.
FDR pushed for the middle class and poor, Obama pushes for the corporate control of the federal government through the TPP.
There was a whole lot more support for the middle class and poor by FDR than by Obama. Obama could have been another FDR if he had wanted it. He didn't. If he had acted like FDR, congress would have turn almost 100% Democratic like they did under FDR. But Obama seems more concerned about wars and rich people than in a stagnant economy and growing masses of unemployed people.