Ten Things You Didn’t Know About FDR

To The Editor:
Even when I was an impressionable high scholar being programmed that FDR was one of the greatest presidents who ever lived, something didn’t make sense to me: if he handled the Depression so well, why did it never improve over his reign? I understand now, having done research independently of the schools, and upon understanding honest history, everything else makes far more sense. I didn’t want to accept much of this information at first, being taught contrary information and hearing so much Roosevelt nostalgia from seasoned citizens who revere him as if he can do no wrong. Yet, all this information is the product of my research, which I encourage skeptics to discover and confirm.
The following 10 facts they don’t teach about FDR: (If you learned three or more in school, I’m impressed.)
1) FDR hired 77 known communists to work in his administration.
2) Until WWII, Roosevelt was a huge fan of Mussolini and his fascist approach to government, and was not afraid to express it.
3) FDR made it illegal to own gold coins and many other forms of gold, and confiscated Americans’ gold possessions. This brought America off the gold standard and widened the Depression.
4) FDR ordered 2 million pigs killed against the will of farmers, to artificially inflate the price of meat.
5) Every government job FDR created cost 2.2 private sector jobs, the same rate of Obama’s policies.
6) Roosevelt raised taxes on all income above $200,000 to a staggering rate of 90 percent! Karl Marx would be proud.
7) When federal courts blocked several of Roosevelt’s attempts to violate the U.S. Constitution, he stacked the courts, appointing anti-constitutionalist activists to the Supreme Court until there were an unprecedented 15 justices, and enough sympathetic to his ends to allow him to circumvent the law.
8) After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, FDR rounded up innocent Americans of Japanese descent and forced them into America’s own concentrations camps for years. The only other president to use internment camps was Woodrow Wilson. Upon their release, no evidence of subversion or disloyalty was ever found in a single captive.
9) The Depression never ended under Roosevelt’s four terms. Contrary to this, it worsened and persisted well beyond the rest of the world’s recovery, his socialist policies having done lasting damage to America’s economy.
10) In the 1940s, Roosevelt directed his progressive allies in academia to rewrite history books to portray his disastrous policies and human rights violations in a good light, which is why we hear little to none of this in history classes.
These facts are readily available to those who are not afraid to challenge what they’ve been told. Always trust your own homework, and never accept anything at face value without discovering for yourself.
MICHAEL TOURETTE
Wildwood