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To: fooman
Lol. The Roosevelt policies were the communist revolution.

No, a communist revolution would have been much worse. People don't realize it these days, but a sizable percentage of the population was so desperate during the Great Depression that they would have been willing to chuck capitalism out the door. Roosevelt was able to defuse the situation and lower the misery to an acceptable level.

243 posted on 07/19/2004 12:11:24 PM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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To: Modernman

Or thats what he was able make people beleive.
The reality is that lower tariffs, more money supply and lower taxes would have helped more. Sure, the TVA and gov money to restart the agriculture/ money cycle would have helped, but the CCC programs were close to slavery.


245 posted on 07/19/2004 12:19:05 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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