Most of these photos are flat out propaganda for FDR’s socialist policies. The photographers were sent out by government agencies or the NYT with the express goal of making things look bad. Many of them are posed for deception or don’t really represent what they are purported to show.
This has been well documented, for example here:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-1/
***Many of them are posed for deception or don’t really represent what they are purported to show.****
what’s this from the article?
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-1/
***The federal government stepped forward with $5 million to buy a million head of cattle — with the meat to go to the needy. ***
Bunkum! I know of too many old farmers who recall that the government confiscated their cattle (with payment) then shot them and buried them on the spot. They would NOT give the needy even one piece of meat from them.
Same for milk, hogs, and anything else they had. The government wanted to create a cattle shortage and get the prices back up. My mother-in-law remembered that time when you ate steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner as it was so cheap.