Roosevelt Was Important
To The Little Man

To The Editor:
My wife said you wrote something about President Roosevelt and I replied how important he was to the middle class and the poor. It’s a good history lesson for all. Most of Americans born in the 1940’s should remember our 2nd world war president who died in office named Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The only president to hold a third and fourth term, 1933 to 1945.
He started what they call “The New Deal” and was loved by most Americans. He then started Social Security to look out for senior citizens. In October, 1941 FDR issued an executive order limiting top corporate salaries to $25,000 after taxes to correct gross inequities.
To show you how well he was loved, when he died in 1945, I was about 17 years old and I cried. I was not alone for my mother, father, sisters cried. When I walked outside in Brooklyn, NY on Moore Street, lots of people cried. I saw this! In those days, Democrats looked out for the little man. When I write, I call this Americanism, a feeling for our leader and country.
I remember my mother telling me to support Democrat, not Republican, for the Democrats looked out for the poor and middle class. I will never forget him, our war time president fighting German first and then Japan with their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Some say President Obama gave the Republicans pretty much everything they wanted with this initial deal on the debt ceiling. Some in the tea party think that it wasn’t good enough for them. The fact that the recovery has been largely invisible for the bottom 90% of Americans. According to the new data, the job crisis has been severe and the “recovery” weaker than we thought. However, those at the top have recovered very, very nicely. Corporate profits are now 205 billion higher than they were at their peak.
This doesn’t count for another one trillion international corporations admit they are holding in their offshore subsidiaries. Some independent sources estimate this offshore profits hoarding are as high as 1.6 trillion.
Headline around country- Republicans; The People My Mother Warned Me About.
Today’s robber barons are no longer industrialists but heads of multinational corporations or big bankers and reckless financiers.
Congress needs more carpenters, less millionaires.
What the hell happened to our Democracy?
Until now, protection of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid was part of the Democratic D.N.A.
Average American,
John T. Nickoless
Bennettsville, SC