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FDR was a socialist and an isolationist.

Does that have any relevence to this abundance of Roosie threads?


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  • The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much
    it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
    FDR

    Liberal?
  • StoogeStooge Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does that have any relevence to this abundance of Roosie threads? >>


    This forum, I'm sorry to say is basically DEAD! I collect dimes and nothing else really. I probably Fart more x's per day then there are threads to this Forum. You can post something here and literally 2 weeks later, come back and read it.

    As far as F.D.R. is concerned, I don't have an opinion since that is acient Hx and he was dead before I came along. I do like his dime and VERY GLAD not alot of others like it.

    Later, Paul.

    Later, Paul.
  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 5,970 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am the Walrus.
    Doug
  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293
    Paying people $1 a day to fix our roads in anticipation of war with the Civilian Conservation Corps--makes him a cheapsake enviormantalist--and an explotative capitalist pig!!!
    Lend-lease--not isolationist "giving" England warships to kill Nazi's IMHO
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    The March of Dimes did wipe out Poilio, 8 years after he died---maybe the isolationist/Red Commie/ Roosie Dime lovers here think he shouldn't be on the dime?
    Stopping polio wasn't that a big thing! So, sell this capitalist pig your Roosie MS68FBL's!!!
    morgannut2
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,282 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sat it ain't so.

    Next you'll tell us that clad half dollars depict a sweet roll.
    Tempus fugit.
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    If Franklin had half the balls that his distant cousin Teddy did, WWII would have been over in 1941 and the Soviet Union would never have become a super power.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Saintguru...

    FDR was not a Socialist nor was he an isolationist...

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.



  • << <i>Does that have any relevence to this abundance of Roosie threads?


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    All Democrats at center or to the left are Socialist (so what's your point)?
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,453 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does that have any relevence to this abundance of Roosie threads?


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    None at all. It appears to me that collectors of Roosies (and Kennedies, for that matter) are free-trading capitalist pigs image.
  • ColorfulcoinsColorfulcoins Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭
    Rosy guys keep this forum alive.....did FDR keep the US alive?.........Maybe there is some similarity!
    Craig
    If I had it my way, stupidity would be painful!
  • Dear Saint Guru:

    Roosevelt was never my favorite president for

    ... knocking us off the gold standard

    ... confiscating the legitimate gold holdings of ordinary citizens

    ... destroying the independence of the Supreme Court by stacking it (Can you imagine! At at one time, the search for a new member of the Supureme Court was a search among the best juridicial minds, rather than a search for some hack who has the "correct" political beliefs and who has learned to lie sufficiently well that he can hide his true views from the Senate)

    ... keeping Jews seeking to escape from the Nazi's out of America (Read Morse's book, titled, I think, "While 6 Million Died.")

    ... talking peace while taking the back door (through Asia) to war

    ... and giving eastern Europe to (then) communist Russia, setting up another half century of conflict

    But I never thought of him as an isolationist in the sense of Nye, Buffet (the father not the more famous son), or (Senator) Taft (the first one). Those true isolationists were anti-war, did not want to station US troops abroad, and, more generally, did not want to interfere in the affairs of other nations. They were ardent supporters of low-taxes because they believed the government needed more tax revenues to follow a militaristic foreign policy.

    Hardly a good fit for Roosevelt, eh?

    But while, as I said, Roosie was never one of my favorite presidents, he sure as all heck was an inspiration that a cripple -- a polio victim -- could rise above his handicaps and make it to the top of the heap.

    And more to the point of this thread, he sure makes a great dime. That's a wonderful image of him. And when those dimes tone nicely, sheesh, they're beautiful. And even when they're beauties, they're still el cheapos.

    And that's why you see so many Roosevelt threads. They're cheap so they're easy to collect. And they're so beautiful, they're a ton of fun.

    If you contrast them with your beloved Saints, the Saints are also beautiful, probably more so than the Roosies. But they're so danged expensive, it's painful to collect 'em.

    To put this in perspective, I just got word from B.J. Searls that "The judges awarded your ... your Roosevelt FB dime sets Best Modern Set." But I'll bet that you had (have?) several Saints in your collection that individually cost more than my entire Roosie collection.

    Warm regards from Bangkok,


    Just Having Fun
    Jefferson nickels, Standing Libs, and US-Philippines rock
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,282 ✭✭✭✭✭
    JHF; Just my point. Kennedy was a self-described (and actual) jelly roll who nearly
    stumbled the country into nuclear annihilation and WWIII. That's no reaso not to
    collect half dollars.

    After all, you can't blame Kennedy for the half dollar he was already dead before it
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    Tempus fugit.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is easy and even fashionable to be a crtitic of FDR... Thats right... FDR was a bum... but you just may want to take a moment and thank the infrastructure of the New Deal that helped develop the means to shift the US economy into a wartime economy to prevail in WW II

    Never before and likely never again will there ever be an investment in infrastructure in America. Basically, THE INVESTMENT in America paid huge dividends in terms of creating the means to develop a strong and sound economy which was broad based... agriculture, manufacturing and the further development of natural resources.

    It doesn't sound like socialism to me...

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,266 ✭✭✭
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    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    I never said "bum". image

    Had FDR entered WWII when the OSS had info of what was going on in Europe tens of millions of Russian, Polish, jewish and every other nationality couls have possibly been saved. He waited until it was so far gone that the damage was already done.

    JHF...this has nothing to do with Roosie dimes. That was actually the first and only set that I completed as a kid from going through change. I will never forget the day I found the 1949-S to complete it. Probably the best day of my entire collecting hobby!

    I'm just stirring the pot, even though I don't buy this "FDR was one of the greatest presidents" belief.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Saintguru:

    I think in evaluating FDR's foreign policy, one must consider the strong isolationist view within the US that that existed at the time. Remember the America First League and the popular guy that lead the charge with that?

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    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Many of our current economic ills started with his policies. While it helped us get over WW2 they set us up for current programs we cannot afford to fund any longer.

    Next to creation of the FED in 1913 and going off the gold standard in 1971, FDR's 1934 blunder with the gold standard was the 3rd major economic gaffe of this century.

    But on the Roosy dime, his head just seems to collect hits. Do you think he and Washington had something in common to attract bagmarks on the head??? hmmmm? Lincoln didn't have the same problem nor Jefferson.

    roadrunner

    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • Many of our current economic ills started with his policies

    Wrong, they started when Al Gore invented the internet!

    . . . . and correct me if I am wrong, Lincoln and Kennedy both had problems with hits to the head.


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