Re: [Pen-l] Only a hint of FDR

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> This is a great article, but I'd bet if we looked at FDR's financial
> reforms they wouldn't live up to this praise. -l

Kenneth Burke remarks somewhere that as soon as Roosevelt came out with
a rhetorical blast against the "Financial Royalist" he (Burke) knew the
banks were safe: Had Roosevelt been intent on seriously changing the
financial structure he would have used a _much_ milder rhetoric. Burke
argues in fact that usually rhetoric is used counter to actual
intentions. Curse the banks, and then treat them nicely. The rhetoric
'makes up for' the lack of action.

Carrol

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