On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:44:54 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Comment about life being somehow better during the time of TR was
hilarious. Life was pretty miserable for the average working man and his
family back then. Sheesh.

Why do you think that is true?
Certainly life was simpler and we didn't have all the things we are
used to today but does that automatically make people happier?
If you are talking about the people who moved to the big city to get a
job in a sweat shop, life sucked but that is still true today.
There were still plenty of people who were very happy out in the
country.
Using the 4 branches of my family as an example, nobody really thought
life sucked that bad
My maternal grandmother's family at the turn of the century were
fishing right down the road from you. My maternal grandfather's family
was in the wholesale grocery and seafood business in Baltimore and
points south (how they met).
My paternal grandmother's family were real "sooners" already living in
Oklahoma when they started the rush and my grandfather's family were
in the tool business in Missouri.

I have not really ever heard a lot of stories about bad things in
their life until the depression but that is not the Roosevelt you are
talking about.

What TR did do was break up some of the robber barren companies with
anti trust legislation. He also started the park system and the
concept of federal land preservation.