Roosevelt "Let me warn you." 1936 video: A must see!

[Tennessee Gal]

This is a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his reelection campaign in 1936. It's sounds like a perfect sarcastic description of the political gamble being played with common people's lives, that is still going on these days as well ...


"Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion that says 'Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die.

'We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything'"

[tjdee]

1. Tweety showed this on his show today.

Really great stuff.

[Tennessee Gal]

2. Yes, I saw it. That is what caused me to search for it

and post it.

It is incredibly applicable to what Romney/Ryan is attempting right now.

[iamthebandfanman]

4. i think youd find most of FDRs speeches

are still relevant today... unfortunately..

i highly suggest one he gave at the end of october of 1936 right before the election...

http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/od2ndst.html
"We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle.

For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred."

[Tennessee Gal]

5. Yes, they are relevant. That one certainly rings true of the times we are currently living.

Thank you for posting it.

[longship]

3. Happy to R&K this.

R&

[goclark]

6. Kick again

[pampango]

7. Very good and timely video. n/t

[Tennessee Gal]

8. Kick for the evening crowd. Everyone should see this. nt

[pacalo]

9. K&R!

[kentuck]

10. kick

one more time.

[Honeycombe8]

11. Whoa. That's eery. It could be a speech made today. FDR was one of the rich. He knew what was what.

[Poll_Blind]

12. Holy shit- that's a solid K&R from this corner of the world. Eerie. nt

PB

[BarackTheVote]

13. Love this man!

His policies saved my grandma's family after her parents died, leaving her, a teenager, to provide for her siblings, and she always let us know none of us would be here, none of her ten kids, her twenty-some-odd grandkids, and her dozen great grand-kids, if it wasn't for FDR. My grandpa was a mechanic on his airplane during WWII and even walked Fala a few times LOL! FDR is the secular patron saint of my family. This is what a great, socially-conscious president does: saves lives and the generations that follows!

Incredible man! Intelligent, compassionate, responsible, and the RW has been trying to destroy his legacy from day one