If you could bring back one President, alive or dead, to be President, who would you bring back?

Thomas Jefferson. He believed in people earning their own living. He didn't accept a pension, and declined a presidential inauguration ball to save taxpayer money.

JFK

Probably a lucid Ronald Reagan and let him see what the GOP has become!

George Washington or Ronald Reagon....A close toss-up.

The only President to face a bigger economic crisis than President Obama had to face, and he managed to end the Great Depression through public spending and job creation while having to deal with a conservative activist Supreme Court and an obstinate minority.

ofcourse, another socialist for you.

FDR was not a socialist. Do you folks even have a clue what "socialism" even means?

SOCIAL security is socialism. maybe you should get a clue. Have you learned your own platform yet since our last convo?

Social Security is not socialism. Social security is a government administered insurance program that has kept millions of Americans alive when they had no other means of surviving. It is probably the single greatest accomplishment any free and democratic society has ever accomplished.

social security is a redistribution of wealth. yes, it is socialism

Social Security is NOT a redistribution of wealth. It is a "safety net" that any civilized society is morally obliged to provide to its own population. No one ever got rich on social security checks, and no one ever got poor by paying social security taxes.

By the way, since you're obviously not going to look it up, here's a decent definition of socialism:

"any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods "

So tell me, how is social security control of the means of production and distribution of goods?

food stamps, medicare, retirement, all redistribution of goods, services and wealth. spin away because the truth hurts! :)

I agree.....

Socialism was required to fix that mess. Capitalism is better than socialism and I am not even close to socialist BUT sometimes socialism can bail us out AS LONG as it is only for a short period of time. Sometimes the complete oposite is true but no one can argue that FDR didnt fix the problem.

... crickets. actually social security is the biggest reason that the government is about to go bankrupt.

Did FDR, or did he not fix the problem?

he had a temporary fix that we are feeling today.

That "temporary fix" created the greatest era of prosperity and growth this country ever enjoyed, which lasted until 1981 when Ronald Reagan deregulated the financial markets, stopped enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act, and cut the top marginal tax rate in half (while at the same time TRIPLING our national debt).

try when carter stuck his hand in housing and started the seeds for the housing bubble that clinton accelerated. thats another good example of socialized housing

Now THAT is genuinely funny. "Socialized housing" would mean that the government owns all the houses. I can't speak for you, but I can guarantee you that the government doesn't own my house.

look up their housing policies. they implemented laws that guaranteed anyone can take out governmnet subsidized mortgages for houses. thats socialized housing

Who owns the house? Not the government, the borrower. The fact that the government is able to offer them more affordable terms than a private for profit bank would is not socialism.

Look, I don't mean to give the impression that I believe the housing market problems are ALL the Republicans' fault. I admit that the Carter administration didn't do the market any good, and I agree that a lot of Democrats in Congress dropped the ball at various times over the last 20 or 30 years. But an economic problem that the government tries to fix simply does not equate to socialism. The "Government" does not WANT to own your house. They don't mind that you pay property taxes on the house and lots of fun taxes if you decide to sell it, but the government has no interest in owning people's houses, or every factory in America, or the health care industry.

the money is subsidized government loans financed through freddie mac and fannie mae. spin, away.

This reccesion and the great depression are not directly related. FDR fixed the issue. No matter how much that fact infuriates you.

its not. I dont know why you would think that would infuriate me.

the only way it is remotely connected is that FDR's social security solution is adding to our debt in the form of entitlements.

the great recession was caused by the housing bubble that was created by carter and accelerated through clinton.

Social Security has nothing to do with either the annual national deficit or the overall national debt. It is fully funded and will have no financial problems at all for the next 30 years. And if we do the sensible thing and raise or eliminate the cap on social security taxes it will be solvent for as long as the United States exists.

yes it does. we spend about 55 percent of our budget on entitlements which encompass ss

Social Security isn't even IN our annual budgets! And 100% of what social security pays out comes from funds paid in to the social security system.

then where is it?

FDR

I would be curious about what Kennedy would have accomplished without that "Dallas incident" ;) , but there is no president I'd resurrect to place in the office today.

I agree with you about JFK. Actually, I would be even more curious to see what James Garfield might have accomplished had he had the chance. He was one of the most capable men we ever elected, as a dark horse he was not beholden to the political backrooms, he had already begun to dismantle the corrupt "spoils system" in Federal employment, and who knows how much progress he might have made.

FDR or Clinton.