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In reply to the discussion: I was wrong about FDR holding 600 press conferences. [View all]RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)27. Shame on you, Manny. If I had been at one of FDR's conferences, here is what I would've asked:
How are you going to pay for all this stuff, Mr. President? Social Security? Unemployment insurance?? The Federal Theater Project??? The Works Progress Administration????? The Federal Emergency Relief Administration?????
Are you kidding me???
Don't you realize that this is a Depression?
It should be obvious to anyone that deficit reduction and austerity measures are the only reasonable answers.
Oh, if only Simpson and Bowles had been around back then to provide some sorely needed sanity!!
(And such nice men, too. Not like that swishy foreigner John Maynard Keynes.)
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A prepared speech is somewhat different from answering pointed questions.
MannyGoldstein
Apr 2013
#10
Shame on you, Manny. If I had been at one of FDR's conferences, here is what I would've asked:
RufusTFirefly
May 2013
#27
FDR's press conferences were different than the ones by the President nowadays.
Cooley Hurd
May 2013
#54