By: Jay Loeffers

Greetings my fellow truth seekers… today will be the start of a multi-part article on FDR. The hyped up myth, verses the ugly truth and please remember to compare FDR’s failings to other modern presidents and see if you notice any repetition of presidential blunders, mistakes and over-reaching. I will look at his early life, his progressive views and agenda and his protectionism. Make no mistake, I will be looking at this elitist snob with a fine tooth comb and how he ALMOST became the dictator of the United States with backing from close friends and his wife.

Now, as memory serves me, my history on FDR as a child goes like this: FDR was one of America’s greatest presidents of the last century. He defeated the Japanese empire, he defeated the Nazis, he saved America from itself using the New Deal and by spreading the wealth, while getting back at all those evil big businesses. He protected the little guy from insecurity as well. This is the grand myth that’s been played out through the media, high school and college history literature and by rank and file Democrats all through the years.

Let’s do an overview on the ugly truth of FDR: he passed the most radical tax regulation of his day and used the IRS as his own personal secret police to destroy all who disagreed with him or that were no longer useful to him. He trampled on the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and was the most crushing president to civil liberties at that time and even went so far as to put in jail a dry cleaner over a matter of 30 cents! (It was his price control regulations that allowed this.) He was a blatant racist and implemented the wrongful internment of loyal and hard working Japanese-Americans. Then the highly praised NEW DEAL came along with the idea of providing cradle to the grave entitlements. FDR even tried to get a second Bill of Rights passed that was so socialist in nature that the brakes were put on it immediately.

How about FDR’s turning a blind eye to the communist Russians and what Joseph Stalin was doing to us with his spy network in America? Or how FDR just about gave the communists the keys to the patent office? Or how the communists were stealing America blind of gear and military tech by the ton? Just how do you think the Russians got to build an A-BOMB and NUKES? Oh hell, the Russians had spies in the White House at this time and were helping the Communist Party of America to recruit. They later on helped out the so-called peace movement of the 1960s.

The early World War II build up was no picnic either. America suffered through labor union sabotage, budget problems, the wrong people were hired for inappropriate jobs, cost overruns and guns and ammo were in very short supply. FDR had to hold back his anti-business beliefs to get war production up and running. He used Hollywood, radio, media and music production to sell both his bad tax hikes and to support the war.

So, the next time you hear from some rank and file clown on how FDR was the greatest president of this century, please let them know otherwise and tell them to do their own homework and history research. Of course, I have files on this subject, so please e-mail me at [email protected], free of charge. Let’s remind these guys that the two best presidents of the last century are, drum roll please… Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan. (Reagan looked up to Coolidge, what does that tell you?)

FDR Exposed Part 2: Taxes and the IRS – next time…