tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5890312.post7760728189327200640..comments2024-02-21T20:11:38.607-05:00Comments on Collecting My Thoughts: Citing the 1939 Morgenthau quoteNormahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11502895616873273470noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5890312.post-86634489396691578362016-07-29T16:20:12.554-04:002016-07-29T16:20:12.554-04:00Hi Norma here is the primary source right from the...Hi Norma here is the primary source right from the FDR library....<br /><br /><br />http://www.burtfolsom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/Morgenthau.pdf<br /><br />Jake Jacobs<br /><br />NB: Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Diary, Microfilm role #50, May 9, 1939Normahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11502895616873273470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5890312.post-85665204743733807142011-04-09T22:39:29.184-04:002011-04-09T22:39:29.184-04:00In case you have a genuine scholarly interest in t...In case you have a genuine scholarly interest in the origin of this quote, I recommend consulting "From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of urgency, 1938-1941," edited by John Morton Blum and published in 1965, which has the advantage of (a) being on paper; and (b) predating by decades both the Web and this latest round of debate regarding the New Deal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5890312.post-31811317148873107092011-01-26T07:22:43.525-05:002011-01-26T07:22:43.525-05:00Oh Anonymous, name me a single productive economic...Oh Anonymous, name me a single productive economic policy that Obama has endorsed. Or a free market oriented policy. Or one that expands freedom. Or one way he shrank the size and scope of government. Or (really) reduced the national debt (no CBO games like counting ten years of taxes for six years of so-called "benefits"). Or spoke well of America and its founding ideals, such as liberty. Or talked down socialist dictators like Fidel or Raul Castro or Hugo Chavez or Daniel Ortega or Manuel Zelaya? That is what we "crazy" people are taking into consideration. We want Obama to prove us wrong with more than occasional self-serving rhetoric, and he's not!rogue operatorhttps://rogueoperator.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5890312.post-59235314666312632432011-01-26T07:18:48.602-05:002011-01-26T07:18:48.602-05:00Thanks for the full quote.Thanks for the full quote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5890312.post-31894444422465225022010-11-18T10:24:17.032-05:002010-11-18T10:24:17.032-05:00I was wondering what the context of that quote was...I was wondering what the context of that quote was - thanks for bringing that to light. As far as what the Anon poster said, s/he is correct that it's pretty extreme to say that a president is deliberately trying to ruin the country financially, even if s/he expressed it rather inartfully. That's some serious, Area 51-level conspiracy theory stuff, and if we can't agree that the other side wants what's best for the country but simply has different ideas about how to reach that end, then I'd say this country is truly doomed. In any event, it's probably more accurate to say that Obama is more interested in achieving redistribution and giving handouts to his favored constituencies (unions, the poor) than in achieving economic growth (the benefits of which he seems to assume flow predominantly to the rich). I think it's also fair to say that he's so insulated by the media and the political class that he knows almost nothing about true free-market, non-Keynesian economics, except that it's incorrect. After all, if Paul Krugman said so, then it must be true, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5890312.post-14515463609113017222010-11-05T05:47:45.243-04:002010-11-05T05:47:45.243-04:00Anon 10/05: Usually I delete this type of garbage...Anon 10/05: Usually I delete this type of garbage and gibberish, but am leaving it to show the impoverished language of the left.Normahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11502895616873273470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5890312.post-23840459898504840242010-11-05T02:09:29.726-04:002010-11-05T02:09:29.726-04:00"I think it is Obama's intention and desi..."I think it is Obama's intention and desire to ruin the country financially"<br /><br />What the fucking fuck? The President wants to ruin the country? Holy fuck you people are insane.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com