Anyone who has viewed the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington would agree with the thoughts of Bob Ray Sanders (7/21, Opinion, “FDR memorial is exceptional in its humility”).
My family visited the National Mall in 1999. It had been several years since our last trip there, and we were moved by the FDR memorial. A quote is located just to the left of the last figure in the breadline: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
Our world would be a much different place if this was the uppermost thought in the minds of our government and corporate leaders.
Rae Ann Kobylinski
Overland Park
Not to mention what FDR did to what had been an excellent business enterprise.
Soup kitchens.
When he came into office, business was so good that people lined up for blocks at soup kitchens all over America. In just a few short years, FDR destroyed their customer base and thousands of soup kitchens were forced to close.
Hardly deserving of admiration.
FDR: destroyer of free enterprise and America hater.
Posted by: whispering_to_kc | July 25, 2008 at 09:56 PM
Yes, FDR's industrial policies were designed only to restrict the consumer's natural, inborn desires to ... freely consume. Everything Hoover left us was destroyed by FDR.
FDR was a communist and his only intention was to increase state control over our lives and increase our taxes.
How much more free would we be today if FDR had never taken the oath of office? I can hardly imagine that future, meine freunde.
It's a good thing nothing else was going on while he was in the White House, or we would have been in even worse shape after he left town.
Gute nacht.
Posted by: whispering_to_kc | July 25, 2008 at 09:35 PM
FDR's industrial policies made sure we had little for quite a number of years.
Posted by: Engineer | July 25, 2008 at 04:44 PM
Gag me with another tax increase.
Posted by: Rogue | July 25, 2008 at 08:59 AM