For the poor and middle class, that is a contradiction in terms. http://www.smudgereport.com/ Bush Jr. wants to be like Hoover when he grows up. I just hope another Democrat like FDR will be able to bail us out of the mess Republicans have got us in. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html Franklin D. Roosevelt Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." http://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrstate.html "This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness." -August 14, 1935
