Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Deal or No Deal...how about a New Deal?

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" spoken during the period of the first New Deal has carried on and is spoken so frequently it almost isn't a quote anymore so much as just an accepted truth. Rather ironic that it is nothing more than a recursive reference to our own inadequacies and need to justify everything. He made this statement as a prelude to changes to come that were dramatic, liberal and meant to drive community based responsibility for the economic revival so desperately needed.

This particular post could get more lengthy than would be intellectually valuable, so I will bullet point some of the things that FDR implemented, received or instigated, as the case may be:
* Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
* Repeal of Prohibition
* Silver Buffalo Award
* Guillain-Barre Syndrome (not polio)
* Fireside Chats (Radio Commentaries)
* Securities and Exchange Commission
* 21st Amendment
* Social Security
* Withholding Taxes
* Good Neighbor Policy
* Fair Labor Standards Act (Minimum Wage)
* Served 4 terms in office
* Tennessee Valley Authority
* Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

There are more but I only need to demonstrate a point of effect on every aspect of what may be termed governmental controls but is more like leadership guiding community or some may say more the likes of Balanced Socialism. I do not argue either position, I only demonstrate accomplishment and under what could be considered the most personal and politically tumultuous time of the previous century.

Human as well, he had indiscretions and warlike vengeance at times. Would he be ashamed of what we have become or proud of our accomplishments...whatever we each may think they are or are not.