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pampango

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22. Tell that to FDR who lowered tariffs and set up the low-tariff trading system for

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 03:22 AM

Dec 2012

the post WWII world. He pushed for the United Nations and his Bretton Woods conference in 1944 set up the IMF, World Bank and the GATT (which evolved into the WTO). He believed in multilateral control of international trade and finance to decrease the power of nationalism to create problems between countries.

I suppose FDR was not "Pro-LABOR or Pro-American Working Class at the same time" that he lowered the high tariffs that the republicans handed him in 1933. If high tariffs make a political party "Pro-LABOR or Pro-American Working Class" then the republican administrations (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover) from 1921 to 1933 fit the bill, while Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Harry Truman were the exact opposite.

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