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To: ealgeone
ealgeone: "In the context of the original discussion...yes.
The original assertion was YOUR opinion of how the economy was performing....not how the public perceived the economy."

As usual, you misunderstood, and I think deliberately since clear comprehension would destroy your own pathetic opinions.
Your argument is that President Roosevelt needed war -- his motive for war -- was purely economic, he "needed" to reduce the unemployment rate and recover from the Great Depression.
I pointed out that by 1940 & 1941 the US economy was already well into recovery and FDR didn't "need" a declaration of war to achieve that.

For FDR's purposes the economy was doing "just fine".

That's not my opinion, that was FDR's opinion, and proof of it is his reelection in 1940 to a THIRD term.

So I "get" that you just hate, hate the suggestion that FDR's motives were something other than purely economic, because that throws your "economics only" theory into history's garbage can.
Nevertheless, it's true, regardless of what your Marxist professors taught you in school.

151 posted on 12/16/2020 11:41:04 AM PST by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...) )
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To: BroJoeK

The economy was benefiting from the War beginning in 1939 and subsequently in 40 and 41.

What we do not know is what would the economy be doing without that boost.

More New Deal spending? More regulations?

There is no way to know if the unemployment level would have continued to improve.

For FDR's purposes the economy was doing "just fine".

Of that I have no doubt. Dims love high unemployment and government spending.

155 posted on 12/16/2020 11:54:49 AM PST by ealgeone
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