executive orders

[Bernard_Fokke]

So far Obie isn't doing too bad from a historical standpoint compared to others that have preceded him.

http://news.yahoo.com/president-obama-executive-orders-historical-terms-094606664--politics.html
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President Roosevelt issued the most executive orders, according to records at the National Archives. He issued 3,728 orders between 1933 and 1945

President Truman issued a robust 896 executive orders

George W. Bush, issued 291

President Obama has issued 184 orders so far



Full list of all presidents... just fyihttp://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php

 

[as seen on tv]

class assignment - discuss: did FDRs executive orders resolve, or prolong the depression?

bonus points question - how much did it cost taxpayers in reparations/damages to "correct" FDR's most infamous executive order - the confinement of japanese american citizens to concentration camps at the start of world war 2?

 

[Arkady]

So far Obie isn't doing too bad from a historical standpoint compared to others that have preceded him.

http://news.yahoo.com/president-obama-executive-orders-historical-terms-094606664--politics.html
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President Roosevelt issued the most executive orders, according to records at the National Archives. He issued 3,728 orders between 1933 and 1945

President Truman issued a robust 896 executive orders

George W. Bush, issued 291

President Obama has issued 184 orders so far



Full list of all presidents... just fyihttp://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php

Wow, he's really shown restraint! That's 33.27 per year. Looks like you have to go all the way back to Grover Cleveland, in the 19th century, to find a president who was as reluctant to use that power as Obama has been.

 

[Bernard_Fokke]

class assignment - discuss: did FDRs executive orders resolve, or prolong the depression?

bonus points question - how much did it cost taxpayers in reparations/damages to "correct" FDR's most infamous executive order - the confinement of japanese american citizens to concentration camps at the start of world war 2?

The internment order was not well thought out and had definite long reaching ramifications, knee jerk over reaction with racist overtones.

Don't forget the Germans as well.

 

[Arkady]

class assignment - discuss: did FDRs executive orders resolve, or prolong the depression?

bonus points question - how much did it cost taxpayers in reparations/damages to "correct" FDR's most infamous executive order - the confinement of japanese american citizens to concentration camps at the start of world war 2?

Since the countries that emerged most quickly and robustly from the Depression were those that were most aggressive with government intervention in the economy, and since the first recessionary portion of the Depression in this country lasted for years until FDR took office, then immediately the economy started growing again (and grew incredibly robustly for years), I think it would be damned hard to avoid the obvious conclusion that FDR's executive orders helped speed and strengthen the recovery.

As for the cost of his most infamous executive order, it was $1.6 billion in reparations.... or, approximately five one-hundredths of one percent of Bush's blunder in Iraq. As far as presidential screw-ups go, it was fairly minor in a dollars-and-cents accounting.