[Bringbackthedraft]

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.

[RayChuang88]

A number of economists recently said that if we had not imposed the New Deal, the US economy would have started to pick up steam by 1936-1937 anyway, especially given the history of earlier financial panics in the USA. By 1940 in this scenario, the Great Depression would just be a bad memory.

[cld51860]

I said as much in an economics class when I was in junior high school and the teacher ridiculed me. Mr. Elmies was his name. Total jackass.

[HenpeckedCon]

“and that what’s his name guy, from Germany”

Schicklgruber was his name. He had a bastard daughter named Hildegaard. She was adopted by a father named Rodham.

[98ZJ USMC]

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.

It actually wasn't that, directly. The Great Depression I ended, by the numbers, in the early 50's. We dropped back into recession right after the war (WWII). The post war spending cuts, excess industrial capacity, the fact that we were the only real economy left untouched and pent up consumer demand is what ended it.