The working class and the middle class are always the ones to suffer. The upper classes that precipitate these crises always land on their feet or weather temporary setbacks as in this last fiasco. They bring the world to the edge of ruin by their greed and come out smelling like roses and they are allowed again unfettered to practice the same laissez faire practices that nearly destroyed the economies of both the nation and the world. The instruments of predatory wealth, debt creation and the parasites who bleed the country dry periodically and add nothing to the collective good is what needs to be dismantled.
@CyanoticWasp
I think you’re being biased in regards to FDR. Even a national poll puts him at the top three presidents ever along with Lincoln and Washington (CNN 1999). More than a half a century later this can’t be dismissed as a mass voting ignorance or anomaly of the time.
And what would you have had Roosevelt do differently? There were people setting up shacks on the lawn of the White House. Hoover’s solution was to shut the blinds.
Roosevelt immediately set about changing the tide of the nation by building infrastructure, dams, highways. bridges, art, architecture and creating unprecedented and bold initiatives that put millions to work and transformed the nation. He won a record three terms because he was in touch. He was effective. He most certainly changed the landscape of the nation and the role of the Federal government but he inherited a nation in poverty. He had no choice.