The problems started when the Stock Market crashed in 1929. Most leftists claim that this was because of over-production or that somehow a LACK of regulation made these businesses go under, but in reality it was brought about by inflation. Of course, since America was on the Gold Standard at this point inflation was not only not present but NEGATIVE. If an American put aside one hundred dollars and let it set on a shelf for five years he would be GAINING an incredible amount of money without even doing anything. The problem, then, wasn’t that inflation EXISTED but that it ONCE EXISTED. Under the Progressive tenures of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, the Federal Leviathan had inflated at an insane rate and launched unprecedented (not to mention unconstitutional) regulations of private businesses. Austrian Economic Law states that recessions and depressions are correction periods following inflation and that they can be stalled but not prevented once inflation has occurred. Thus, the Roaring Twenties significantly stalled the inflation and led to a ROAR in the economy – and minimized the recession to a Stock Market Crash in 1929. Just hours after the crash occurred, however, the Stocks were already regaining their value, and to make matters better, only one percent of Americans had suffered because of the Wall Street Crash. In an astonishing victory for free market economics, the corrective recession would have been only a FEW WEEKS.

The tariff made the downturn on Wall Street turn into a tailspin as foreign countries stopped trading with America. More jobs and unemployment quickly spread, and the small recession turned into a full-scale one – all because of GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION. If the government had left the economy alone, as had been its constitutional duty and eternal custom since the Founding, things would have gotten on track quickly. Inflation and Big Government, two sacred cows to liberals, were in fact the causes of the Great Depression.

People rightly blamed Hoover, but for the wrong reasons – they claimed that rather than doing TOO MUCH, as was in fact the case, he was somehow doing TOO LITTLE – even though he funded massive construction programs like Mount Rushmore and the Hoover Dam to try to employ people. Shanty-towns were scornfully dubbed “Hoovervilles” by poor Americans. Hoover, who hated poverty and genuinely had a heart for the people, tried to do all he could to help – even though economists begged him to try to UNDO all he could to help. This is one example of many of how the road to hell is paved with good intentions – Hoover was trying to help, but that didn’t matter because his programs were based on economic fallacies. Poor Americans wondered why the government didn’t help more – they were thinking with their stomachs rather than their brains.

So in came Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Dr. New Deal,” as he called himself, instead of prescribing a medicine to the economy, prescribed they very poison that had destroyed it in the first place – only on a MUCH larger scale than Hoover ever could have dreamed. Such was his hatred for Herbert Hoover that when they rode to the inauguration together, he sat staring out his window rather than make eye contact at Hoover, denied him even a single security guard out of town! To add insult to injury, he even didn’t allow him to attend the opening ceremony for the very Hoover Dam he had created!

FDR immediately launched into a gross defiance of everything the Constitution stood for. With a supermajority of Democrats in both houses of Congress, Roosevelt had almost no checks on his power, and he showed that he wasn’t afraid to use it. Just days after assuming office, Roosevelt took the nation of the Gold Standard, which was a system where every dollar was backed by a fixed amount of gold. Thus, he opened the door for runaway inflation, deficits, and borrowing, causing one financial expert to predict severe stagflation and change the inscription on coins from “In God We Trust,” to “I Hope My Redeemer Liveth.” In a tyrannical final touch, FDR ordered all gold that Americans owned to be seized without their consent and “paid for” with dollars – which were now nothing but pieces of paper. All who resisted these anti-constitutional seizure of their investments would be tried in federal courts and severely punished.

As a Keynesian, FDR also believed firmly in demand-side economics rather than supply-side economics. Thus he thought that if he used the brute force of the government to increase demand for goods, the economy would somehow be fixed. This he did to a fanatical extent, ordering imperfect oranges, apples, pears, and peaches to be torched at the side of the road while skeletal onlookers, starving to death, breathed in the scent of destroyed food they could have made good use of. Worse yet, his Agricultural Adjustment Act forced farmers to follow federal regulations on how much food they could plant. One farmer who planted eleven acres of crops without asking FDR and his cronies was fined and took his case to the Supreme Court, which ruled against him in the case Wickard V. Fillburn, fining him a severe amount of money for producing more FOOD at a time when people were STARVING TO DEATH than the government told him he could. Explain to me how FDR is a good man now!

Furthermore, when the Supreme Court DARED to dissent from any aspect of his anti-constitutional agenda, FDR attempted to flood the court with liberal justices to water down the conservative majority and destroy the Constitutional checks and balances that Hamilton and Madison had created. This would have upset the balance of power and allowed him to remain unchecked throughout his tyrannical regime. Fortunately, over a hundred Democrats saw through Roosevelt and crossed the House floor to vote against the Orwellian bill, stopping FDR from completely destroying everything America stood for.

FDR also raised the minimum wage – a catastrophic decision that, by forcing already struggling businesses to pay their workers excessively, killed millions of Americans’ chances at getting a job. He also raised the top income tax rate to an astonishing 87% -- a tax that destroyed a significant chunk of the wealth of America that could have been used to hire millions of hungry Americans. Unemployment sky-rocketed and Franklin D. Roosevelt was the man who made Hoover’s Depression GREAT. In summary, not only were his policies COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, but they were also tyrannical and formulated by his nefarious mind to secure a permanent grip on political power for his Democrat Party. Rather than worshipping him we should relegate him to the place in history in which he belongs – seated among the tyrants of the earth and treated with scorn. Of course, I skipped over how he ran for times, lied to the American people about WWII, allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor KNOWINGLY, bribed people, has multiple scandals and affairs, and many other NASTY DETAILS BESIDES.