Since JFK and Ike. Before then, sure, there were a decent number I think were good, not only FDR --limitations and mistakes admitted-- but also TR, Polk, Lincoln, etc and of course the Founders. Not on the list is Wilson, who I utterly despise. Millard Fillmore, ex-Know Nothing, later a Whig as prez, was actually not too bad, either. He added the Pacific NW to the Union. Billy ========================================== In a message dated 4/11/2010 5:55:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Except FDR? David "Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine."--P. J. O’Rourke On 4/10/2010 11:52 PM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: Maybe so, but as a true-believer Radical Centrist you do realize, don't you , that I hate Republicans and Democrats about equally ? There has not been one prez in all my life since JFK and Eisenhower, for whom I have had real respect. Not one in all that time. And I don't much care who knows it. Each has had fatal flaws, either ( or both ) of character or judgement. Some have been worse than others, but this doesn't exactly provide me with much to cheer about. the whole system sux I kinda think that , while I disagree with much of what they stand for also, the Constitution Party people would say about the same thing. No sacred cows, either major party, thank you. Billy =========================================== In a message dated 4/10/2010 8:53:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) writes: I don't think that this administration is all that enamored with Supply-Side economics. They appear to be Keynesian to the millionth power. Make that trillionth. Trashing Reagan puts you on the fighting side of me. David "Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine."--P. J. O’Rourke On 4/10/2010 9:58 PM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: Seems to me that financial institutions, whatever their ( sometimes major ) limitations, nonetheless are multi-dimensional and make decisions for any number of reasons from one year to the next. Speaking of policy. There are, of course, still more reasons if you count day-to-day stuff. The Freddie and Fanny explanation only goes so far, and in this case I wonder if that line of reasoning accounts for more than, say, a quarter of the bad decisions in question. Even if the actual % is somewhat higher, no way is it even half, and that leaves a helluva lot of territory to account for. Most of that balance, as I see it, is the result of laissez faire doctrine working its "magic." What is notable to me is the fact that Biz Week, certainly not a Leftist rag, is willing to take a hard look at laissez faire, even if via a review of a book, and entertain the thought that --at long last-- Wall Street was sold a bill of goods way back in the Reagan era as far as economic ideas are concerned. Ideas that have infected every administration since. "Infected," as in "disease." Unless " mental illness " is better metaphor. It is about time. As much as I a complain about folks like Carter and Clinton, not to mention BHO, each of whom I dislike, sometimes in extremis, Ronald Reagan was never a hero of mine and it is a relief to see the vapid economic views he held thoroughly trashed. If it was up to me, all the supply-siders still alive would be, along with lawyers, taken out and shot. Just my humble opinion, of course. Billy =========================================================== In a message dated 4/10/2010 6:52:12 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) writes: Hi David, On Apr 10, 2010, at 6:50 PM, David R. Block wrote: Why would they make stupid loans? Because Freddie and Fannie pressured them to, or be faced with the prospect of being blasted as mean to the poor and possibly racists as well. 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