Comments on: FDR's New Deal Blueprint For Obama

How The Revolutionary WPA Jobs Program Helped Move A Nation Mired In Depression And Redefined The American Worker

[whitemale08]

whitemale08: Life expectance in 1913 was in the low 50s. That would make retirement a nonstarter. Sure some would live longer, but some would die much younger [especially in childhood]. You could move to Zimbabwe and see if you like it.


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Posted by downsteamjim at 04:18 PM : Dec 14, 2008--

Zimbabwe is the way it is because the British Commonwealth is punishing the Zimbabwean people with sanctions.

Again if we tell the British to leave the rest of the world alone and dismantle ''globalization'' so no one country is powerfull enough to press for sanctions in the U.N. Security Council then countries like Zimbabwe would be free and truly sovereign on their own.

[downsteamjim]

Slim: Life on the farm today is a far cry from that of a century ago. The idea that one could make a living on 40 acres and a mule is in for a rude surprise.

[slim1h2o]

Good question.....but really,,who said life on the farm was good or easy?

I said the food was better for you. And alot of people are going back to that way of life.....

[downsteamjim]

Slim: If life on the farm was so good, why did the people leave.

[slim1h2o]

My great great grandmother who was born in 1893 died a few years ago at the age of 106. As a matter of fact people back then were much healthier without all of the Tylenol and indigestion pills.

Posted by whitemale08 at

....and not to mention that the food back then was fresh unprocessed, and free of any chemicals that we have today.
Most people back then lived on farms.

[downsteamjim]

whitemale08: Life expectance in 1913 was in the low 50s. That would make retirement a nonstarter. Sure some would live longer, but some would die much younger [especially in childhood]. You could move to Zimbabwe and see if you like it.

[whitemale08]

whitemale08: Certainly, you are not saying that the life expectancy in 1913 was 80 years.


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Posted by downsteamjim at 04:09 PM : Dec 14, 2008--

I''m outta here, be back later.

[downsteamjim]

thickredhair: Didn''t Hillary Clinton communicate with FDR''s wife, Eleanor? Maybe she can get FDR''s channel too.

[whitemale08]

whitemale08: Certainly, you are not saying that the life expectancy in 1913 was 80 years.


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Posted by downsteamjim at 04:09 PM : Dec 14, 2008--

I am saying that.

My great great grandmother who was born in 1893 died a few years ago at the age of 106. As a matter of fact people back then were much healthier without all of the Tylenol and indigestion pills.

[downsteamjim]

BChamplain: Hopefully the Republicans will treat Obama with the same degree of respect that Democrats have shown Reagan and the two Bushes.