A great comparison of FDR and Obama. The similarities are staggering. It’s not a hard thing to do.
Uncanny, Disturbing Historical Parallels
by David Limbaugh
Recently, I reread the chapters on the New Deal in Larry Schweikart’s superb “A Patriot’s History of the United States” to review parallels with Barack Obama’s radical economic agenda. Here is an eye-opening, side-by-side sampling, with Schweikart’s observations on FDR and the New Deal, along with mine on President Obama and his policies.
Schweikart wrote, “During the campaign, FDR, a man whose presidency would feature by far the largest expansion of the federal government ever, called for a balanced budget and accused Hoover of heading the ‘greatest spending Administration in all our history.’”
Obama’s stimulus bill sets frightening new records for federal spending. But while campaigning, he said, “I’m running for president because I believe we can choose our own economic destiny to go another four years with the same reckless fiscal policies that have busted our budget, wreaked havoc in our economy, and mortgaged our children’s future on a mountain of debt; or we can restore fiscal responsibility in Washington.”
