Comments on: Remember the Americans chose FDR….. http://www.debtonation.org/2009/10/remember-the-americans-chose-fdr/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:39:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Financial Fix › The Showdown In Chicago http://www.debtonation.org/2009/10/remember-the-americans-chose-fdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1405 Financial Fix › The Showdown In Chicago Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:57:02 +0000 http://debtonation.org/?p=2915#comment-1405 [...] a blog by British economist Ann Pettifor (http://debtonation.org/2009/10/remember-the-americans-chose-fdr/) – who, by the way, predicted the bursting of the debt bubble and the subsequent economic [...] [...] a blog by British economist Ann Pettifor

(http://debtonation.org/2009/10/remember-the-americans-chose-fdr/) – who, by the way, predicted the bursting of the debt bubble and the subsequent

economic [...]

]]> By: the.Duke.of.URL http://www.debtonation.org/2009/10/remember-the-americans-chose-fdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1341 the.Duke.of.URL Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:02:06 +0000 http://debtonation.org/?p=2915#comment-1341 Clarification: the plotters desisted when faced with exposure. Butler didn't think the putsch was very well organized. Clarification: the plotters desisted when faced with exposure. Butler didn’t think the putsch was very well organized.

]]> By: the.Duke.of.URL http://www.debtonation.org/2009/10/remember-the-americans-chose-fdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1340 the.Duke.of.URL Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:59:54 +0000 http://debtonation.org/?p=2915#comment-1340 Some among the rich in the US turned toward fascism, too, in the 1930s. They organized a military coup against FDR but selected the wrong general, Smedley D. Butler. Butler cared for neither the capitalism of his time nor for Roosevelt, but he did believe in democracy. When he had discovered who the plotters were, he went to the McCormack-Dickstein committee and gave evidence. All that happened was that the plotters were contacted and told to desist or their names would be plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country. Which they did. Some among the rich in the US turned toward fascism, too, in the 1930s. They organized a military coup against FDR but selected the

wrong general, Smedley D. Butler. Butler cared for neither the capitalism of his time nor for Roosevelt, but he did believe in democracy. When he

had discovered who the plotters were, he went to the McCormack-Dickstein committee and gave evidence. All that happened was that the plotters were

contacted and told to desist or their names would be plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country. Which they did.

]]> By: Joseph Angier http://www.debtonation.org/2009/10/remember-the-americans-chose-fdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1338 Joseph Angier Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:21:26 +0000 http://debtonation.org/?p=2915#comment-1338 I wish this post were as true as you seem to make it. In "Capitalism: A Love Story" Michael Moore makes much of a populist groundswell pushing back against the capitalists, and for proof shows us some footage of a couple of poorly attended demonstrations. The real groundswell of street-level outrage is coming from the so-called 'teabaggers,' who seem to be willing to fight to the death for the right to get screwed over. If that's still better than what's happening in London, then we're all really in trouble. I wish this post were as true as you seem to make it. In “Capitalism: A Love Story” Michael Moore makes much of a populist groundswell

pushing back against the capitalists, and for proof shows us some footage of a couple of poorly attended demonstrations. The real groundswell of

street-level outrage is coming from the so-called ‘teabaggers,’ who seem to be willing to fight to the death for the right to get screwed over.

If that’s still better than what’s happening in London, then we’re all really in trouble.

]]>