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Kievan Rus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-28-09 10:03 PM
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Which President was most pro-common people, and which was most anti-common people?
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I would definitely have to take Franklin D. Roosevelt as the President that was most for the common American citizen. FDR had the concept of a Second Bill of Rights that would eliminate monopolies, grant legal rights to healthcare, a job with a living wage, and so forth and so on. His efforts at pushing Social Security through Congress created an important social safety net that is so accepted today that even the most brainwashed corporate shills take for granted. The Federal tax code was in order under FDR's administration. Labor unions successfully organized under the Roosevelt administration, and worker rights were expanded with the National Labor Relations Act. He worked tirelessly to end the Great Depression.

On the other hand, Ronald Reagan is without a doubt (in addition to being the worst President in history) the most anti-common citizen, most pro-wealthy President in the history of the United States. He supported the broken concept of supply-side economics, an economic theory so flawed that even Dubya's father criticized and derisively referred to it as "Voodoo Economics." Taxes for the rich were slashed while the tax burden remained largely the same on the common American taxpayer. Reagan was vehemently anti-union, and if he could have outlawed unions, he would have done it in a heartbeat. He was no friend of Social Security either, as it was under his watch to start taxing Social Security benefits upon which many retired poor and middle-class Americans depend on. The great dichotomy of the rich getting obscenely richer while most people struggle to make ends meet started under Reagan. And his failed, broken supply-side nonsense, also championed by Bush II, is largely the reason why our economy is currently in the greatest dive that it has been in since the Great Depression.

Who would you pick for the most pro-common citizen President, and the one most opposed to the common American?
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