When FDR was president, he signed Social Security (SSI) into law and the supreme court upheld it. FDR had first sent his labor secretary, Francis Perkins, to ask a supreme court justice how to make SSI able to withstand a court challenge. The justice told Perkins the federal government had the power to tax, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Franklin Roosevelt’
Obama Proposes to Redistribute More Income From Working Americans to the Rich Via Corporate Tax Cut
Posted in corruption, Economics, Economics, recession, Politics, Recessions, taxes, tagged corporate, Franklin Roosevelt, obama, Tax cuts on Jpm2000000pmWed, 22 Feb 2012 14:43:32 +000012 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
President Obama today proposed reducing the corporate tax rate and putting “an end to dozens of loopholes he said helps US companies move jobs and profits overseas.” “It’s not right and it needs to change,” the president said. I don’t disagree with what the president said. However, while closing incentives to ship and create jobs [...]
what Obama should do that FDR did
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, jobs, obama on Jpm11000000pmFri, 25 Nov 2011 15:05:20 +000011 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The nation is experiencing the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. Princeton economist and former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Blinder, calls the current crisis a “national jobs emergency.” Click on the link below for the rest of the story. click here to see what Obama should do that FDR did [...]
The Super-Committee Has Failed! How’d We Get Here? Was It a Failure of Presidential Leadership? See the Video of A Great President of the People and a Mercenary Of Wall Street President
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged congress, corruption, Failure, Franklin Roosevelt, obama, Super committee, supreme court on Jpm11000000pmTue, 22 Nov 2011 12:01:50 +000011 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The super-committee has failed, which is good. The failure of the committee is a symptom of the corruption of our government at all levels, from congress to the president to the Koch Brothers/Corporate/Wall Street/Big Oil wing of the Supreme Court, which might be the most corrupted in the history of the United States. Any way, [...]
Obama: A Complete Failure of Leadership
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged compared, comparison, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, obama, The Great Depression, the great recession on Jpm8000000pmWed, 24 Aug 2011 13:58:35 +000011 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are below two videos. One of them is of Obama via Jon Stewart. The other video is about a leader named Franklin Roosevelt. I will begin an on-going series of the differences between Obama and FDR. Those differences are gigantic, and all of them are in favor of FDR. Let’s begin with something we [...]
