I see, Dickey, and thanks for the link. Seems to me that squirming out of things must run in the same genes that makes people vote for dipwads. You would like to propose that FR's situation is "just like" Bush's, which is pure fantasy and conflation of dissimilarities on your part. This escapade of Mister Bush's has cost the US taxpayer one trillion dollars, approximately. Bush had a choice in dealing with the aftermath of 9-11. His nation was attacked by thugs, evidently, if messianic thugs. FDR's was attacked by two industrialized nation. I suspect your graph is badly distorted. I wonder where those numbers come from. But even if it is correct, it does reflect the fiscal management or the situation of the two men.

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