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Anthony C. LoBaido

Clinton misses mark on FDR

Posted: February 05, 2000
1:00 am Eastern

By Anthony C. LoBaido
© 2009 WorldNetDaily.com



Although I have often been a harsh critic of President Clinton's policies, I must admit he is a very intelligent man. He was educated by Jesuit priests and One Worlder Carroll Quigley at Georgetown University, then trained via Cecil Rhodes' Oxford program in the UK. He served as a professor at Yale Law School, and was groomed for public office in the Rockefeller paradise of Arkansas. Thus Clinton ranks as the consummate insider. He is an extremely clever man, a wonderful public speaker and, now it would seem, a pretty good writer to boot.

However, his column on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "Captain Courageous" -- written for Time Magazine's Millennium edition -- misses the mark in terms of historic accuracy.

Any thinking observer can understand why the power-tripping Clinton admires FDR. FDR was the closest thing to a king or dictator America ever had in office. Like FDR, Clinton has armed the former Soviet Union, to the point where it now openly threatens the U.S. with nuclear attack. Clinton has also worked to prop up communists, terrorists and mass murderers like Yeltsin (who ran the Soviet-era Siberian gulag system for a time), Aristide, Winnie and Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat and Stalinists and Marxist regimes in North Korea and Red China.

Like FDR, who was slow to help the Jews suffering under the Nazis, Clinton has turned his back on Christians suffering in North Korea, China, Sudan, Angola, the Islamic world, India and many other countries, while increasing cultural persecution against American Christians at home.

To begin his Time essay, Clinton writes, "When our children's children read the story of the 20th century, they will see that above all, it is the story of freedom's triumph: the victory of democracy over fascism and totalitarianism, of free enterprise over command economies; of tolerance over bigotry. The driving force behind it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

The United Nations is U.N.-American

Objective reality commands this honest rebuttal: The world in which we live at the dawn of the 21st Century ranks exactly opposite of Clinton's opening statement. Democracy no longer exists. We have in its place polyarchy, or two identical, supposedly competing, political parties who are controlled by the transnational elite of the Western hemisphere. No matter who wins, electoral victors do the bidding of the elites.

Second, the new economic order is pure fascism -- an alliance between big business and government. The IMF, World Bank and G-7 are not only the pure white-supremacy of Cecil Rhodes in motion; they represent tightly controlled, managed economies rivaling the centrally planned economies of the former totalitarian states.

In his essay, Clinton praises FDR's role in the founding of the United Nations. We know today that Alger Hiss, a Soviet agent, wrote the U.N. Charter. The United Nations supposes that man's rights come from the government, while the U.S. Constitution states that man's rights are inalienable, and are endowed by the Creator, God. The government that grants us rights can also take them away capriciously.

Rights granted by God on the other hand, can never be taken away.

George Bush told America in 1991 that, "It is to the sacred principles of the United Nations Charter that we will now pledge our allegiance."

Sorry, Mr. Bush, and sorry, Mr. Clinton. The United Nations is a death machine -- the greatest single killer of unborn children via abortion in human history. China and Russia, the governments that have murdered tens of millions of their own citizens, sit on the Security Council of the U.N. Pol Pot, the mass murderer of 1.7 million Cambodians, was given a seat in exile by the United Nations, the only such seat ever given. Men like Nazi Kurt Waldheim have led that world body. Burmese U.N. leader U Thant once said, "The principles of the U.N. charter are in line with the principles of Lenin."

Lovers of freedom everywhere can echo Senator Jesse Helms' recent rebuke of the world body by saying a resounding, "Get out of the U.S.A.!" to the U.N.

The U.N. has destroyed the hopes of freedom for nations like the Congo, Rhodesia, Afrikaner-led Namibia and South Africa, South Angola's UNITA anticommunist partisans, as well as targeting non-compliant states of various ideologies ranging from Burma to Iraq to Serbia.

A Look at FDR's New Deal

Mr. Clinton blindly praises FDR's "New Deal," as do so many liberals without training and education in hard economic theory. It was the economist John Maynard Keynes who led America's financial elites to believe it was their duty to deficit-spend their citizens into economic prosperity. When pressed to account for the long-term consequences of deficit spending, Keynes replied, "In the long run we're all dead anyway." It is enough to make Ross Perot's blood boil.

It would be prudent to examine the results of the New Deal of the 1930's in an effort to bring sanity and truth to Clinton's establishment-line analysis of FDR's "New Deal."

In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, America was ushered into the era known as the Great Depression. Yet, in the early 1930's, America had great industrial capacity, fertile farmland, skilled and willing workers, good farmers, a vast communications infrastructure of telephones, radio and mail, no war in its cities or famine or pestilence in the countryside.

Without any federal intervention, the effects of the 1929 crash would have righted themselves within the framework of the free market. However, banks -- which were the only source of new money and credit -- refused loans for industries, stores and farms. Payments, though, continued on and soon money began to disappear from the system.

Thus, bankers were able to gain control over vast amounts of private property and other securities.

In an effort to end the depression, President Roosevelt chose to adopt the Keynesian economic theory of governmental economic intervention. The WPA or Works Progress Administration of the New Deal was launched, which supposedly put millions to work and "saved capitalism."

The hard facts however, show that 13 million Americans were unemployed in 1933, and by 1941 -- well into the New Deal -- there were still 11 million Americans unemployed. Without World War II, the horrendous unemployment would have continued.

The painful truth Mr. Clinton and liberals everywhere must come to terms with is that for every worker the government put to work, it displaces another worker in the private sector. The gaping hole in Keynesian economics is that the government has no money except the money of its citizens, therefore it can never do anything for the people that they cannot do better for themselves.

The New Deal operated under the notion that you could create wealth by digging a hole and then filling it up again with the same dirt. This idea of the government giving people gifts out of their own wealth was first implemented in ancient Greece, and spelled the doom of the Athenian democracry.

But FDR was on a roll. In order to attack the "farm problem," the President ordered the price of corn, which was barely selling at 10 cents per bushel, to be raised to 50 cents per bushel. Farmers were ordered to plow under their corn crop without harvesting, kill their pigs and dump boatloads of potatoes into the ocean.

Please bear in mind, this was done at a time when there was real hunger in America. Thus FDR launched the communist-oriented command agricultural economy, which has pushed the modern American farmer to the verge of extinction. (Mr. Clinton has tried to reform America's agricultural system, much to his credit, although the Newt Gingrich Congress blocked him in this effort).

On March 6, 1933, FDR called a bank holiday. He then ordered the revaluation of gold from $20 per ounce to $35 per ounce. With one stroke of the pen, FDR had stolen, in effect, $200 billion in savings, life insurance and pensions from the American public. For this grand theft he was praised to no end.

In 1934, Congress passed the Gold Reserve Act. The government stopped minting gold coins, and individuals could no longer hold gold money. The dollar used to be a receipt that could be traded in for gold. No more. Few Americans realized the foolishness of placing their wealth in worthless pieces of paper called dollars, which were under inflationary attack.

With the onset of World War II -- which many historians claim FDR may have manipulated the U.S. into via the Pearl Harbor fiasco -- banks, which only months before had no money to lend for houses, food and clothing during peacetime, suddenly had unlimited billions for Army barracks, rations, uniforms and bombs. With an increase in the money supply, people were hired, factories began two shifts and farmers sold their produce. Clearly, a lack of money brought on the Depression, and an adequate money supply ended it.

An elementary analysis of the policies and effects of FDR's New Deal should be enough to provide America with enough valuable lessons in dealing with the upcoming stock market bubble crash. Like the 1929 crash -- the horse on which FDR rode to power, the coming crash might well bring fundamental changes to the American way of life, destroying many cherished freedoms. But that is the subject for another column.

Finally, we can draw one all important parallel between FDR and Mr. Clinton. While, sadly, FDR was struck down by polio and served as president as a cripple, Mr. Clinton has through his liberal, Marxist worldview, crippled our nation.

It is a legacy that our children will look back upon and lament as they labor, sweat, toil, fight and die to undo Mr. Clinton's treason against America and freedom loving people scattered to the four corners of the earth.





Among his many pursuits, journalist Anthony C. LoBaido spent 2008 working with the South Korean armed forces. He also appeared in the definitive Korean documentary on United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. A longtime contributor to WorldNetDaily.com, LoBaido maintains a blog entitled The Walls of Jericho.





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