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In reply to the discussion: Russ Feingold: Obama Super PAC Reversal Will Lead To 'A Legalized Abramoff System' [View all]OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)prior to declaring the entire west coast of America a "military zone", probably gave great comfort to the Japanese-Americans who had to give up their possessions and leave the farms they had operated so successfully so they could go to concentration camps
FDR sold out the Japanese and Japanese-American farmworkers to the farm corporations, who profited greatly. Executive Order 9066 was the last in a series of increasingly repressive measures to reap greater profits from labor.
As great as his accomplishments were, FDR compromised with corporations and as a result, 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced into concentration camps. That's pretty bad.
So when the next Too Big To Fail bank collapses and the citizens are forced to pay for it with deep austerity cuts, will you say, "He had to compromise. He had no choice" and will you be satisfied with that?