CrusaderFrank
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What distinguished the Great Depression?
FDR going on television....
FDR going on television....
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Was FDR's inability to end record unemployment through record spending for years on end.
How is this any different from now?
Was FDR's inability to end record unemployment through record spending for years on end.
How is this any different from now?
WWII was the biggest government spending program in American history. We're told that WWII brought us out of the Depression.
Therefore, a massive government spending program, with borrowed money, ended the depression.
What was your point again?
According to some, it was WWII that took us out of the Great Depression.
We've been at war now for over eight years.
Where's our War Dividend?
Was FDR's inability to end record unemployment through record spending for years on end.
How is this any different from now?
WWII was the biggest government spending program in American history. We're told that WWII brought us out of the Depression.
Therefore, a massive government spending program, with borrowed money, ended the depression.
What was your point again?
What the fuck was the "New Deal"?
WWII was the biggest government spending program in American history. We're told that WWII brought us out of the Depression.
Therefore, a massive government spending program, with borrowed money, ended the depression.
What was your point again?
What the fuck was the "New Deal"?
A government stimulus program that apparently wasn't BIG enough to do the job. Whatever else WWII was, it was a gigantic stimulus package.
Whether you are for or against stimulus, if you believe that it was WWII that brought us out of the Depression, then you have to concede that the government borrowing money to stimulate the economy CAN work.
Of course we paid off the WWII borrowing.
Ironically, Reagan did the same thing on a smaller scale in the '80s. A big military buildup, with borrowed money, that stimulated the economy. Of course we never paid that off.
According to some, it was WWII that took us out of the Great Depression.
We've been at war now for over eight years.
Where's our War Dividend?
More Americans died landing in Africa facing the Vichy French than died in the first YEARS of WOT. It's a whole different scale and scope, but then you already knew that.
Wow.. You people need a history lesson.. WWII got us out of the great depression and FDR did help..
If you all care to actually look up facts.. The unemployment rate shrank every year he was in office.. To an all time low of 1.9% in 1945 at the peak of WWII.. His first year in office saw the unemployment rate drop by over 3%..
While I am not going to say that all of FDR's policies were good.. I am not going to attempt to rewrite history and say he is the reason the depression was longer than it was..
The bottom line is this.. FDR and WWII ended the great depression and those are the facts..
According to some, it was WWII that took us out of the Great Depression.
We've been at war now for over eight years.
Where's our War Dividend?
More Americans died landing in Africa facing the Vichy French than died in the first YEARS of WOT. It's a whole different scale and scope, but then you already knew that.
But we've been at it for twice as long.
I think we're getting screwed.
According to some, it was WWII that took us out of the Great Depression.
We've been at war now for over eight years.
Where's our War Dividend?
According to some, it was WWII that took us out of the Great Depression.
We've been at war now for over eight years.
Where's our War Dividend?
We've lost our labor intensive industries that used to pay decent money. That's the difference. When your economy picks up and people need or want to buy more goods, it matters who builds the goods.
According to some, it was WWII that took us out of the Great Depression.
We've been at war now for over eight years.
Where's our War Dividend?
We've lost our labor intensive industries that used to pay decent money. That's the difference. When your economy picks up and people need or want to buy more goods, it matters who builds the goods.
According to some, it was WWII that took us out of the Great Depression.
We've been at war now for over eight years.
Where's our War Dividend?
We've lost our labor intensive industries that used to pay decent money. That's the difference. When your economy picks up and people need or want to buy more goods, it matters who builds the goods.
Our labor intensive industries becoming extinct while our population continues to grow.
Talk about your recipe for disaster.
We've lost our labor intensive industries that used to pay decent money. That's the difference. When your economy picks up and people need or want to buy more goods, it matters who builds the goods.
Our labor intensive industries becoming extinct while our population continues to grow.
Talk about your recipe for disaster.
In my parents' generation, the one-earner household in the middle/working class was commonplace. Today, the two-earner household in the same stratum is commonplace. That alone is the best measure of America's economic decline.
Our labor intensive industries becoming extinct while our population continues to grow.
Talk about your recipe for disaster.
In my parents' generation, the one-earner household in the middle/working class was commonplace. Today, the two-earner household in the same stratum is commonplace. That alone is the best measure of America's economic decline.
Yup.
My mother never worked until my brother and I were in high school and then only because she was bored with staying home.
Neither of my parents had high school diplomas and yet we had all the trappings of the American Dream - the house, the car, the TV, and the two-week vacation in the Summer.
This is why the cons HATE college educated people and higher education.
Too many of these people KNOW history and it makes it hard for them to rewrite it.
FDR was BELOVED by the American people at the time because the New Deal DID work.
In 1937 he tried to back off the spending and balence the budget, the economy tanked!
He then reupped the new deal and the recovery continued, then the we entered the war creating even MORE jobs.
How dishonest are the cons? VERY