Who was the best U.S. President? II

"You can only have one aim per debate" -Christopher HitchensI. Countering your arguments. I can not address your arguments because they address the man, not the president. But, if I must, I will.1. This whole "New Deal" criticism is crazy. You will probably argue that the New Deal didn't end depression, WWII did. You are semi right. The only things that's are not right are the reasons. According to Linda Gordon, Professor at NYU, these are the two problems [1]: A) Many modern state programs, whether created by executive order or by legislation, are never funded to the extent necessary to realize them, and as a result we never know if they would have worked or not. This problem is characteristic of government activity in many areas, domestic and foreign, and particularly in regulatory systems mandated but without adequate inspection or enforcement personnel. Hundreds of initiatives fall into this category, from drug treatment to pollution control to foreign aid to public education to record maintenance to transportation to the War on Poverty. B) Particularly common to welfare-state programs, in the larger sense of welfare that includes health care, education, and attempts to alleviate poverty, is a two-tier structure that provides the least for those who need the most. These tiers are often counter-intentional and counter-intuitive: one level of generous and honorable benefits from the relatively prosperous, and another that is stingy and disreputable for the poor. The two tiers function to create inequality in several ways: the neediest are often excluded altogether from the better programs programs provide more government funds go to the prosperous than to the poor payments to the prosperous are disguised, sometimes intentionally as with Social Security Old Age Pensions, so as to be unnoticeable while payments to the poor are extremely public and, thus, both stigmatizing and resented. Only the latter are typically called redistributive. The New Deal programs have an IMPRESSIVE record of accomplishment. They decreased unemployment and increased production. From FDR Inauguration to 1936 unemployment dropped 15 percent from 25 percent to 10 percent. The New Deal helped many people survive and live immensely better. 2. Japanese-American Internment Camps.- I can't argue for this. It was morally wrong. It also hurt FDR's Japanese fans. If the Con could, please stick to the presidential ideals and not the moral ideals.3. Same goes for #2. II. My argument for FDR.A) Franklin D. Roosevelt truly "inherited" a massive economic problem from his predecessor, Herbert Hoover. He handled it perfectly and got us out of the problem.B) He started a program that not only impacted those suffering through the Great Depression, but contributed to the military needs when our country entered World War II. He began a program which allowed kids sixteen years old and older to enjoy the wilderness and get away from city life, IE: build cabins, construct hiking trails. These kids ate well, worked hard, sent money home to their families and received an education. When we entered the war, there was a ready supply of well-trained young men with engineering skills, etc. who went into the military. Even today, some of the cabins and hiking trails are still in use in many of our parks across the country. Don't get me wrong, I do not agree with everything he really was what the country needed in one of its darkest moments.C) Economically, he became president during the Great Depression, which impacted not only the United States, but was felt world-wide. He established many programs and pushed laws through Congress that are still in force today including Social Security, the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission to addressed the rampant abuses on Wall Street that helped create the depression, and a series of aggressive public works programs to create jobs that included the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Civilian Conservation Corps.D) He was responsible for leading the United States during World War II, still he died shortly before the end of the war. He helped establish WONDERFUL policies with Winston Churchill and Britain, as well as Joseph Stalin and Russia, that determined strategy for dealing with Nazi Germany and Japan, as well as pushing the creation of the atomic bomb that Truman eventually agreed to drop in Japan that ended the war in the Pacific. His decision to use the Lend-Lease Act to effectively isolate Germany even before the United States entered World War II, kept Great Britain and Russia afloat for the first few years of the war. He also strengthened US military bases in the Pacific and other areas of the world that would establish US dominance following the war.E) Socially, his economic programs led to improved living standards, particularly in the South, through increased availability of electricity through the TVA, improved transportation and communication networks, and improved integration in the work place and the military. He also had a woman serve on his cabinet, was influenced by his wife Eleanor in improving social services for the underprivileged, and promoted numerous recovery programs for those hardest hit by the Dust Bowl and other natural disasters that occurred during the Depression.III. Conclusion of Round 3.Great debate so far. I hope your next arguments are as hard to answer as the first time. Sources:[1] http://hnn.us...* http://en.wikipedia.org...* http://en.wikipedia.org...* http://en.wikipedia.org...*http://www.ccclegacy.org...* http://www.princeton.edu...* http://www.infoplease.com...* http://www.ssa.gov...