tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post4887679743652911072..comments2024-03-28T16:58:17.705-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Making America Great Again: In Victory, Magnanimity Grimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-41208749045491989662016-11-20T10:37:52.512-05:002016-11-20T10:37:52.512-05:00I'm not sure it was magnanimity, really. FDR w...I'm not sure it was magnanimity, really. FDR was a Democrat, and the Democrats were generally on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War, so it was a Democratic president having a monument to a Democratic hero built. However, maybe the people of Texas took it for magnanimity.<br /><br />One problem with the CCC, WPA, etc., was that while it gave individuals jobs, it also extended the Depression by about 7 years. Everyone suffered so that a few million Americans could have jobs. Had the New Deal not been put into effect, the Depression would have been over much sooner, jobs would have naturally come back, and if FDR wanted some work done on parks, he could have done it the way government normally does such things.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-49300586235560475132016-11-18T18:08:46.939-05:002016-11-18T18:08:46.939-05:00You're thinking of Johnson. Lincoln did issue...You're thinking of Johnson. Lincoln did issue a provisional pardon in 1863, but it was not to all officers -- and was only effective in areas where the Union had regained control. <br /><br />Johnson doesn't get credit for being magnanimous, usually. I think people take him to have been too much a secret sympathizer to have been motivated by a big heart. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-55911087333140761192016-11-18T16:16:09.632-05:002016-11-18T16:16:09.632-05:00I would think Lincoln's pardoning and immunity...I would think Lincoln's pardoning and immunity given to all Confederate officers was more magnanimous than some Democrat's statue, paid from taxpayer coffers.<br /><br />One gets to become President for Life. The other one gets killed for being a tyrant.<br /><br />Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-36286571215945076162016-11-18T03:29:15.518-05:002016-11-18T03:29:15.518-05:00Hopefully the boot of ideological regulation will ...Hopefully the boot of ideological regulation will be lifted from the neck of American business and the kids will be working again, and there won't be enough of them to warrant re-creating the CCC.<br /><br />There are a number of WPA projects around L.A. that I do like quite a bit, though, even if I'm not as fond of how they got there.<br /><br />Ron, haven't you heard- the thing that's going around this year from them is that politics shouldn't be spoken of at the Thanksgiving table. Gee, I wonder why the change of heart?douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241790925053112959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-38758339070144835172016-11-18T02:02:15.233-05:002016-11-18T02:02:15.233-05:00This is off topic, but ....
When are we going to ...This is off topic, but ....<br /><br />When are we going to see the videos telling students how to talk to their parents about the election over Thanksgiving dinner again?<br /><br />How about a video telling the students to shut the h*ll up and listen for a change?RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346484258194484053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-30644744569621753282016-11-18T02:00:51.551-05:002016-11-18T02:00:51.551-05:00As I've mentioned before in this space I'm...As I've mentioned before in this space I'm a Scout leader. I've spent a lot of time in facilities and parks built by the CCC and I think it would be a great thing to bring back. The unions would scream, but that's something a Republican Congress and a Republican President ought to ignore. Putting a whole bunch of youth to work and moving them out into the boonies away from the cities would be a great thing.<br />RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346484258194484053noreply@blogger.com