Obama Must Be Bolder Than FDR - Part 2 - The Ring Of Fire

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Channel: The Ring of Fire · 2009 · News & Politics

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Franklin Roosevelt's aggressive approach to the economy
helped pull the country out of the Great Depression.  However, a few
years after he started his new spending policies, he gave into
Republican pressure and stopped.  Things went south from there, forcing
him to restart these programs.  Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of
Fire talks with author and columnist Jim Hightower about Obama's need to
be bolder and stronger than FDR was during the Depression.

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