Gardnerville Not that stellar a record

Not that stellar a record

EDITOR:

In an earlier letter, the writer delineated the liberal record of the last 75 years. A couple of those require a second glance.

1. Resolving the Great Depression - even FDR admitted prior to the 1940 election, if he ran on his economic program he would be defeated.

2. Enacted Social Security - they also voted to tax the benefits with Al Gore casting the deciding vote.

3. Victory in World War II - true they dropped the first atomic bomb.

4. Passed minimum wage law - true and this has lead to inflation and job loss.

5. Passed civil rights laws - true, but only with the help of Republican senators

6. Responsible for the integration of public schools - not true, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock to accomplish this.

That report overlooked several other accomplishments for which liberals must be given proper credit.

1.Satisfied FDR's privately stated goal of getting the U.S. into WWII.

2.Imprisoned citizens of German, Italian, and Japanese descent without trial.

3. Overlooked the mass espionage of the development of the atomic bomb by the USSR.

4. Misled by Stalin into refusing to believe Churchill's warnings of the USSR's desire to dominate and occupy Europe.

5. Oversaw the development of the Cold War.

6. Entered into the Korean War with no winning strategy (our first military draw).

7. Gave us reason to believe in resurrection or reincarnation as the dead arose in Chicago to vote for JFK.

8. Entered into the Vietnam War with no winning strategy (our first military loss)

9. Orchestrated the give-away of the Panama Canal.

10. Determined that the president of the U.S. can lie under oath to a grand jury

11.Witnessed the flow of nuclear secrets to China and Korea

12. Ignored the growth of Muslim terrorism.

I would call this record something significantly short of impressive, but judge for yourself.

Sam Batdorf

Gardnerville