There was a pretty good depression going on well before FDR got elected...And I'm old enough to remember it.....no lol... ......Westy......
Yep, there was a pretty good recession going on, but FDR turned it into a 12 year Depression. Without WWII or Republicans, we would still be in it.
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I think this discussion about FDR and an "FDR sytle recovery" started yesterday when I posted that i was accosted by a young eager thing about Lyndon LaRouche. She tried to hand me a flyer, saying: "Ma'am, don't you want to see an FDR-style recovery?" I didn't care to start a conversation; I had shopping to do. Besides, I remember being that age, and that I was so much smarter than all of those old fogies. I got more stupid as I got older, or those old folks got smarter.
Well, If I had it to do over again, I'd still take FDR's depression over Mr Hoover's recession...
It was a lot nicer getting back into a house and out of the tent along side the road...Watching my mother cook over an open fire, heating water on it to wash clothes in a tin tub, watching my father trying to dry my shoes oover it, sitting there with the snow coming down...
But then I'm just a senile old man who doesn't remember it all in the right way...
Also suppose it was a mistake for the US to get into WWII...There wouldn't have been the years of worrying about the USSR and Communism all over the world...Herr Adolph would have taken care of that...And there wouldn't be the trouble in the Near East...No Jewish State and the Muslims would love us....
Japan would have been tied down with China so we wouldn't be having problems in the Far East either..Just think too, no Toyotas, Nissans, cheap electronics...Damn FDR, he screwed up a perfect paradise...
Best of all I would have been spared all those moments of utter terror during WWII.....
.....Westy......
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