Barack Obama: Franklin Roosevelt Was “Pretty Fiscally Conservative”

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Written By:
Rob Port

Jul 22, 2011
2:52pm

A funny moment from President Obama’s town hall today:

Just for a frame of reference, here’s per-capita federal spending (inflation adjusted) from 1900 forward. Note that the FDR era (1933 – 1945):

And keep in mind that FDR was very nearly a revolutionary, growing the federal government further and more pervasively than perhaps any other American president.

That’s not exactly a picture of fiscal conservatism.