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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No the tariffs had little or no effect on the Great Depression. It’s a myth. Import/exports were only 5% of the entire economy back then. We made our own junk then, we didn’t need slave labor then somehow American survived, how is that?


5 posted on 12/04/2014 10:32:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

you are back again?????

that 5% was the key to the destruction of over 90% of american businesses...


158 posted on 12/04/2014 3:45:43 PM PST by joe fonebone (a socialist is just a juvenile communist)
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