FDR worked his liberal magic by first stacking the deck in the Supreme Court in order to get his Raw Deal rubber-stamped. He foisted the Social Security scam on us, abandoned the gold standard, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 which not only LIMITS farm production but PAYS farmers to do it! Farmers plowed crops under and slaughtered millions of animals at a cost of $700,000,000 over two years in order to raise prices! Corn production was cut so much that the US had to import 30 million bushels. When the SCOTUS came to their senses they wrote: "The AAA was a central government exercising uncontrolled police power in every state of the union." Sounds like Liberal Fascism to the Gunny. The National Labor Relations Act, empowered unions to screw America and they've been doing it ever since. The Judicial Reorganization Bill (this little jewel would have given FDR the power to appoint a NEW SCOTUS judge when they hit 70 years old. Thankfully, Congress actually got it right and killed it.). Income Tax Act (1942) hit people right in their wallets, and by 1944,a whopping 50% of Americans were getting the shaft! SO EFFECTIVE was FDR's IRS that the income tax base increased from 13M to 28M people with another 50M Americans paying the "victory tax." FDR raped America to the tune of 4 million Americans paying income tax in 1939 to 43 million paying in 1945! Tax and Spend liberalism was born. Perhaps NOTHING sums up FDR's legacy than the legacy of WELFARE!
Truman slashed the military to the bone and beyond and harbored a particular hatred to the US Navy and Marine Corps. He once said,
"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force, and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." A nice statement by the CinC. T
ruman's defense budgets from FY 45 through FY 1950 cut hundreds of US Navy ships from the fleet, mothballing, selling them, or scrapping them. The U.S. Army was forced to demobilize experienced personnel, cut back on training exercises, and scrap or sell USABLE equipment and ammunition stockpiles. The US Marine Corps was reduced to hoarding surplus inventories of World War II-era weapons and equipment. Then, one of Truman's idiots, by the name of Dean Acheson, stated in a speech that South Korea was OUTSIDE of our defensive perimeter. Less than six months later, war was on.
Also, it should be noted that Truman's Administration, like FDR's before him, was full of commies bent on subverting American interests worldwide.
Bay of Pigs.
One of the original cut and runs of the liberal elites, JFK sends in Cuban exiles and then gets cold feet and cuts of any air support. They get decimated on the beach and the survivors get a nice life sentence in a Cuban prison. This sets the stage for later liberal cut and runs.
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Often called a "victory" by liberals desperate to create a legacy for JFK, who really was more into having orgies in the White House, affairs on the road, than in actually leading America, this was in reality, a strategic loss for America. The Russians put missiles in Cuba and we make a big deal over it and rightly so. But when the dust settles, to get the missiles OUT of Cuba, JFK promises:
1. NOT to invade Cuba...ever
2. To remove OUR missiles from Turkey.
Nice job libs.
Vietnam and the Cambodian Killing Fields.
JFK expands the war in October of 1963, adding 15,000 US troops with expanded ROE and has the CIA run a coup on the Diem brothers because they were corrupt. The brainiac then puts minority CATHOLICS in charge of a majority BUDDHIST country. Now THAT is some GOOD THINKING huh libs? After JFK sheds his mortal coil, LBJ hurriedly puts another 150K in there so that he can play generalissmo. By the time Nixon is handed a bag of crap, about 50,000 US troops are dead. Nixon slaps on Operation Linebacker I and II and they are SO EFFECTIVE that the liberal majority Congress has to cut off funding and supplies for South Vietnam in order to allow the Commies to win. After the libs lose Vietnam, it allows the rise of ANOTHER dictator, Pol Pot, who then manages to kill a few million people while libs look the other way. The libs DEMANDED a withdrawal from Southeasat Asia in 1975 (like they're doing NOW in Iraq) which resulted ina TIDAL WAVE of murder, rape, reeducation, concentration camps, desperate "boat people," and the killing fields. When this subject comes up, libs gets VERY QUIET because they CANNOT deny the result of their bright idea to cut and run.
Great Society.
Not satisfied with FDR's Raw Deal, LBJ implements his "Great Society" program which, in reality, is nothing more that a redistribution of OPM (Other People's Money) to parasites busy sucking away on that government teat. Taxes soar and the economy stagnates. Business as usual for the libs. LBJ's famous War on Poverty, now in it's 40th PLUS year, is lost beyond belief and the price tag is currently over 70 TRILLION dollars. The Gunny will take a WINNING War for Oil ANY DAY over a LOST War on Poverty.
Forced School Busing
The idea: to raise the education level of blacks by forcibly integrating urban schools with white kids who lived in "segregated" neighborhoods. The result? Disaster. For example, in Boston, school enrollment plummeted, the percentage of whites dropping from 65% to 28%. This bright idea by the do-gooders resulted in "white flight" to the suburbs which gave them something ELSE to whine about called "suburban sprawl." Of course, in the education arena, nothing good happened. Indeed, even the National Institute of Education's study COULD NOT FIND a single study where blacks were better served by this. Of course, the liberal elitist advocates sent THEIR kids to private schools. Whenever liberals have a thought, America suffers somehow.
Luxury Tax
Here's a GREAT IDEA brought to US by libidiots in a 1990 tax bill. They wanted to soak the rich (like they THEY aren't rich) and slapped a luxury tax on big ticket items. Somehow, these morons thought that it would INCREASE government revenue. What Happened? The people in the market for luxuries such as yachts, jewelry, furs and cars went ELSEWHERE to buy them! It's called a FREE MARKET libs. LEARN ABOUT IT you morons. Naturally, American workers like carpenters, electricians, fiberglass, and metal workers lost their jobs. Numerous boat yards and boat businesses went bankrupt. The libs trumpeted an expected a 5 MILLION dollar but in REALITY, it was a whopping 24 MILLION DOLLAR LOSS! It was soon repealed but not until hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their jobs or businesses.
Alternative Minimum Tax
Here is ANOTHER bright idea brought to US from Team Liberal. The AMT, passed in 1969 by a LIBERAL MAJORITY CONGRESS was to disallow deductions and exemptions in computing tax liability. Why you ask? Because a whopping 155 households were deemed by the libsnots to have TOO MANY TAX BREAKS! THE HORROR! What Happened? The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) currently states that the middle class ($50,000 and $100,000) about 34% of taxpayers, will have to pay the tax. So if you're making OVER 50K this year, you're rich. I wonder what that makes Hanoi John Fonda Kerry, who is worth 550 million. If this is not changed by 2010 about 90% of married taxpayers making between $100,000 and $500,000 will be FORCED TO PAY THIS TAX! Liberals in Congress are now frantically calling for repeal to avoid the wrath of their constituents. Guess that means that they're NOT pandering to their core voters, the felons, ex-cons, drug addicts, wh0res, p*mps, welfarites, illegal aliens, etc, etc.
Free Love and Drugs
The liberal's idea circa 1968 was: "If it feels good, DO IT!" Or more likely, "Let's all just do WHATEVER the H*LL we want to!" Of course, rampant promiscuity brought on things like teen pregnancies being okay, single-mothers being okay, homism being okay and the H*LL with the AIDS epidemic, and the end result was a stunning rise in sexually transmitted diseases. Gee, go figure. Then also, let's not forget their mantra in the 60's: "Tune in, Turn on, and drop out." Glamorized by the Hollywood and the lib-media, the words of the day were: "Hey dude, let's party." What Happened? The hippies of the sixties came out of their drug-induced stupor to a generation of drug addicts, who either OD'd or were hooked on drugs, and this drove up crime rates (War on Drugs), the cost of health care, and of course, it wreaked havoc in the black community when used in conjunction with welfare and other "entitlements." Way to go libs.
Iran 1979 and the Hostage Crisis.
Jimmy Carter was the POTUS. Enough said.
IN SUMMATION: It should be CLEAR to ANYONE with a functioning brain that the liberal's have the POOPY TOUCH! In other words, whether it is foreign policy, welfare or domestic economic policy, foreign economic policy, or social policy, or ANY POLICY, the liberal ideas and actions of modern American liberalism have turned into SH*T every time. The liberals worked to HIDE the obvious consequences which then exacerbated the unintended consequences, which were staggering. The people who were supposed to be helped, the poor, African-Americans, the Viets and Cambods, women and children, were usually WORSE OFF than before. What is the most scary thing is that these liberal elites, when faced with a disaster that THEY created, simply shrug their shoulders and move straight on to the next disaster. This is things like providing driver's license to illegal aliens, giving them FREE Healthcare, catch and release, more social "programs", cutting and running in Iraq before the job is done, etc, etc. Liberals are DEVOID of common sense as they run amok wreaking havoc on whole sections of America, as they easily overlook the record of their past disasters. THANKFULLY, Liberalism as a philosophy is crumbling faster than Obambi's chances of being POTUS are. (Rev wrong, rev Moss, "father" Pfagler, Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Bernadette Dornh, etc, etc.)
Of course, no essay on the failure of liberal would be complete without a quote from the creator of the worst universal healtcare plan ever hatched.
"I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all." Hitlery.
America can no longer afford LIBERALS or LIBERALISM!