If you have a spare 10 minutes, Jon Stewart’s Oct. 9 dissection of the Romney-Ryan fiscal plan offers some food for thought. You can read more about it and watch the three-segment video here. In the third segment, you’ll get a glimpse of a campaign speech from what Stewart jokingly calls “a simpler time,” in which a campaigning Franklin Delano Roosevelt mocks some claims that have a lot in common with the Romney-Ryan proposal. Let us know what you think.
The FDR video that Jon Stewart played has been bouncing around the web. Here’s David Remnick’s take, from the New Yorker blog…
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