73. That while Obama's stimulus plan would be considered Republican in an age of 25% unemployment
FDR would be considered a reactionary nutjob on civil rights in 2009. The circumstances under which they govern are extremely different which accounts for the differences in their policies, not just that FDR was some liberal hero and Obama just loves corporations. The scope and scale of poverty in 1933 is not even close to comparable to what it is in 2009. People are suffering but not like they were back then. Thus the political will for massive New Deal jobs programs does not exist among the masses like it did back then.
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