Conservatives, how'd you feel about Teddy Roosevelt, since he did the most gov intrusion into business?

[Composer]

Should we have left food safety, child labor, and work hours to the market to regulate? Also, don't forget Taft who continued (even more) of his policies and Lincoln, who's government intervened on business drastically by not letting them have free slave labor anymore. How about Eisenhower setting up the interstate freeway system with you tax dollars?

[warren peace]

that's why we're pissed.we learned from past mistakes.yet democrats are always doomed to repeat them

[Elitist Snob]

I feel that he was way before my time and I can only judge him on a historically biased material. I think he was a very popular, liberal republican president who, in his 8 years, supported both good and bad legislation. He started the country down the path of fiscal irresponsibility.

I look at the analogy like this. Everyone likes the guy who gives you lots of "free stuff". You go out and he treats at dinner, he buys you presents and they are all really GREAT....then at the end of the year, you find out he was charging it all on your credit card.

The credit card bill has come due. It's all "wonderful" until you have to pay for it.

[Elitist Snob]

Govt. has always "intruded". Never more than now. Obama dwarfs anything done by either Roosevelt. Sometimes govt. does the right thing, sometimes, not. Right now, it's NOT.

[jelesais2000]

Since I'm a fiscal conservative and something of a social liberal, I liked Teddy Roosevelt and Ike. I know Lincoln put himself ahead of the country because he was told the southern states couldn't and wouldn't support his ideas (he did want to curtail states' rights) and I never really cared for Taft. Ike's interstate system has paid for itself many times over and Roosevelt's "interference" with the meatpacking industry has too. The point is, those programs resulted in better health and conditions, have paid for themselves, and did not involve a huge government bureaucracy being built for regulatory purposes only. The "new" proposals only want to add a layer of government to the present mix and dictate to us what we may or may not believe, and we're supposed to pay them to tell us. If they aren't actually listening to us, then how do you know what they'll tell us to do? Or aren't you listening to them either?