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To: dsc

“Like they threw FDR out?”

You could be right, but conditions are somewhat different now. Things are not nearly as bad as they were when he took office with 25% unemployment and most people have a history of how well the free market works to know what is possible. Obama can’t satisfy the electorate with a lot of make work programs that won’t help anyone.


36 posted on 11/16/2008 9:54:23 AM PST by yazoo
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To: yazoo

Things are not nearly as bad yet...The market crashed in 29. It took a couple of years for the depression to begin.


47 posted on 11/16/2008 12:44:34 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: yazoo

“most people have a history of how well the free market works to know what is possible. Obama can’t satisfy the electorate with a lot of make work programs that won’t help anyone.”

I very much hope that you are right and I am wrong.

But I don’t think so. Young people today don’t even know that they’ve been watching the free market work. Their ignorance is staggering.


65 posted on 11/16/2008 3:32:34 PM PST by dsc (A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.)
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To: yazoo

“most people have a history of how well the free market works to know what is possible. Obama can’t satisfy the electorate with a lot of make work programs that won’t help anyone.”

I very much hope that you are right and I am wrong.

But I don’t think so. Young people today don’t even know that they’ve been watching the free market work. Their ignorance is staggering.


66 posted on 11/16/2008 3:32:39 PM PST by dsc (A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.)
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