What a piece of ridiculous right wing drivel put forward by Burt Prelutsky. Of course you can’t expect to much more from someone who gets their information from Michael Medved, a man who himself is one of the great conservative panders of our time, a man whose intellectual ability is two steps above that of the average house cat.
I won’t bother going into the shameful rewriting of history I see happening here, because I’m sure it won’t help Mr. Prelutsky or any of the righties who actually buy into this utter claptrap. The United States of America is some $3 trillion in debt today, not because of free lunches for children in our schools public education, welfare, or any of our social programs, where in that kind of debt because of war and destruction, that’s led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, by a president who is totally bereft of any moral compass. But instead of looking at this, Mr. Prelutsky adopt a favorite tactic of the right, attacked the least powerful and bring greater hardship on those least able to defend themselves.
It should also be mentioned, given that Prelutsky is of Russian Jewish ancestry, that if he wants to put forward a more genuine criticism of FDR, perhaps he should look at World War II and the despicable inaction of Roosevelt in the face of genocide. It’s a matter of historical record that FDR knew about the mass extermination of the Jews that had been undertaken in Europe, and he knew as early as 1941, perhaps earlier. But by 1942 he and the US State Department had conclusive evidence that the extermination of the Jews was taking place on a massive industrial scale, yet he chose to take no action throughout his presidency. He could have directed the allies to bomb rail lines that were funneling Russian, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Czechoslovakian, etc. Jews from all over Europe to the death camps, yet he chose to do nothing. He could’ve bombed the camps directly and though this would have undoubtedly kills Jews and many other oppressed groups directly, it would likely have saved millions. Yet Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt decided that it was better to do nothing in the face of genocide, much like William Jefferson Clinton chose to do nothing to stop the genocide in Rwanda, much like George W. Bush chose to do nothing in the face of the genocide in Sudan.
You want to start criticizing people Mr. Prelutsky, perhaps you should start with those who allow human beings to be barbarously slaughtered and left to die without food and water, as opposed to tearing down a man for putting bread in the mouths of children who were starving in America, and preventing tens of thousands of Americans from dying from neglect and depravity in the streets of this country. Your apparently have the type of mind which would put monetary issues ahead of human lives, you would balance a budget and create an orderly society at the expense of living breathing human beings, it is precisely that mindset which led to the rise of the Nazis and the deaths of millions. I wonder if you and Michael Medved are really comfortable in that company.
