2007-09-28 04:00:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No.
The founding fathers were those brave, intelligent, and far-sighted men who secured our independence from England and wrote a brilliant constitution.
We ought to celebrate the work of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, and the others whose work enabled the U.S. to become the greatest country in the world - despite a few flaws.
2007-09-28 04:04:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I believe FDR could be considered a founding father of today's America. His New Deal created the socialist bent our country has been on ever since. He truly changed America. The greatest change was the federal tax with holding. When he enacted it, the real costs of his programs were negated because people don't have to write their tax check every quarter. It's the main reason small business men are amongst the wealthiest Americans. They DO cut that check and therefore cut out the greatest killer of wealth, taxation.
JFK is a whole other breed. He, like Reagan tried to minimize the deleterious effects of socialism. He slashed taxes and reigned in unbridled growth of socialist programs. Of course, LBJ undid it all with his Great Society which has transferred 11 trillion dollars ( with a T) to the poor since 1964. JFK was also aggressive towards the Russians. He did not share FDR's myopic view of Communism. He and Reagan were the only president's during the Cold War who confronted the Soviets and believed they were murderers who needed to be destroyed. This makes him an anomaly, not a founding father.
2007-09-28 04:23:12 · answer #2 · answered by james 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, JFK and FDR DID embrace similar beliefs when it came to the construction of nacent democracies. Both embraced a raze-build strategy which stopped working after the UN came to being in the '50s. FDR/Truman used this strategy in Europe with WWII, and JFK's goons told him that the SAME tactic would work in S. Vietnam. It didn't.
Thankfully, GWB hasn't embraced this hackneyed tactic and let the people in Iraq VOTE on issues - something JFK/LBJ NEVER let the people of S. Vietnam do because with liberal thought, the general populace are too stupid to know what's good for them if they've been living under communist dommination prior to them being cut loose of these shackles, in one way or another. Liberal dumbocratic myopia - as usual. They are the founding fathers of the socialism movement that Billy Bob and Hitlary Clinton represent, currently.
2007-09-28 04:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The "Founding Fathers" were a group of men who helped found this country over 200 years ago. I guess anyone can assert anything and try to redefine what a phrase means, but that doesn't make them right.
FDR and JFK were certainly influential leaders, but they weren't Founding Fathers.
2007-09-28 04:22:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It may have been a kid who thought that JFK and FDR were founding fathers. As a writer of children's books, you should be able to tell who the kids are here.
2007-09-28 04:11:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. USA was founded WAY b4 FDR and JFK's fathers were born; in the 1770's.
2007-09-28 04:05:52 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Dog 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No! Washington, Jefferson, Franklin
2007-09-28 04:10:54 · answer #7 · answered by Empress Jan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only thing it asserts to me is that our public school systems are hard at work. I'm surprised that Bill Clinton wasn't added to this list. LMAO!
2007-09-28 04:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They contributed to the USA, but they are not founding fathers.
That is like saying that Bill Gates invented the computer.
2007-09-28 04:06:07 · answer #9 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Whomever said that is a little off. About 200 years off.
2007-09-28 04:10:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋