The stupid...it’s Burns.
I once asked Mother if the depression had ended when WWII began.
She told me that things had gotten a little better but we were still in the depression until WWII.
There were no such "honorable intentions" upon the part of the elitist who cooked up socialism in the first place.
For anyone who is questioning FDR’s whole game...I’d suggest to go back and review the Bonus Army, the Anacosta Riots, General MacArthur actions during the riot, newspaper coverage of the riots, and reaction by voters in the 1932 election. President Hoover never realized the news media machine he was against...until it was too late.
No high school or college history class will pick up the Bonus Army, or cover this critical summer period of the election.
Democrats hate rich people. Except when they’re their rich people...
FDR’s avalanche of alphabet-soup government programs ended the Great Depression. .......................... Really, if you ask me, it was Mr. Tojo and that what’s his name guy, from Germany, who we see daily on the History Channel. Those 2 were the ones who really got us out of the depression and put 13 million of our guys on the gov’t payroll.
I saw that gawdawful fdr memorial in DC. It is inscribed with all his “rights,” none of which is in the Constitution and also carry no corresponding responsibilities.
I was commenting and laughing fairly loudly until Mrs. FD got me to hush lol...
World War II interrupted the Great Depression in the United
States. The death of FDR ended it. The election of Republicans in Congress in 1946 and 1948 were the final nails in the coffin. That crap about FDR and Keynesian economics ending the depression is a Democrat fairy tale.
The New Deal turned a normal recession into a depression.
It took WW2 to end the economic mess the new deal created.
Ken Burns is great at emotional little vignettes from ordinary people of the past. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s all he’s got and he should stick to it. He should not try to pass off his bathos as history.
Hitler and Tojo ended the Depression.One needn’t be a brain surgeon to figure *that* out.
Re: “Stephen Moore is chief economist at the Heritage Foundation.”
Stephen Moore also supports massive LEGAL immigration - currently 1.1 million per year (and 30 million since the Reagan Amnesty in 1986).
Stephen Moore also supports Amnesty for the roughly 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the USA.
Stephen Moore also supports a dramatic increase in work visas for foreign workers - currently about 750,000 per year.
I have been watching the Ken Burns thing. He clearly showed that the ramp up to WWII was what got America out of the Depression.
“over the age of 80, and they will say that FDR cared about the working man”
OMG, 20 years ago I had a secretary in our office who was of that group, and she said exactly that. I wasn’t overly combative at that point, so I just frowned and bore it. She was also such a nice lady.
But I was raised by parents a bit younger who didn’t buy that. Of course, neither did their parents who actually lived it. Mom told me her mother reacted with total nonchalance when her neighbor, who loved FDR, spread the news about his death. She was melodramatic about it and grandma basically said, “sorry for you, but no skin off my nose”.
Alphabet soup of tyranny!
They should have shot Wickard and sent Filburn to Congress.
read
FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fdrs-folly-jim-powell/1111529532?ean=9780307420718
look it up on Amazon and you can ‘Look Inside”
I often had this discussion with my economics students. Unemployment disappeared when millions of men were drafted into the military starting in 1940 and war time industries ramped up production. However this boom was paid for with high taxes and millions of Americans being coerced into buying war bonds. War is one of the few times when government spending can cause economic growth, but does so by taking millions out of the work force for military service and with huge deficits.