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I have posted sources several times in these sort of discussions...you can google it. One can only get estimates of course 7 million to 15 million...how can you doubt starvation occurred with all the unemployment, the dust bowl and no social programs of any kind?

If we didn’t have unemployment, you would have starvation right now. In Ohio some soup kitchens have run out of food and food pantries are struggling as well. Two of my neighbors who work for Delphi (laid off ) have killed themselves. My husband will be laid of in April...most likely. One neighbor hung himself in his garage just before Halloween. My 17 year old daughter was the last one to see him alive...really traumatized her.

Now it's 15 million ? You implied 15 million dead thanks to Hoover. It's ludicrous nonsense, and you know it. If 15 million deaths had occurred because of him, I'll go you one further, the Republican party would have DIED as a result. Not a single person would've been able to get elected dogcatcher on that party label ever. I'm alarmed that as a teacher (former or otherwise) you come up with these numbers without any evidence. Once I was deprogrammed of the leftist brainwashing, I never let any of my teachers get away with pulling stuff like that out of their butts.

Your husband is another FReeper, I believe, and he and I have discussed the bailout, and we disagree on the issue. You don't solve a problem by making it infinitely worse. We're either a capitalist country that believes in its people and gets out of the way to let them solve their own problems and be successful or we're a totalitarian state with the government dictating every action that is "right" and "wrong" based on a subjective set of principles handed down from the elites that can change on a dime. We're far too in to the latter, and I'm deeply troubled by what you folks espouse on here. It's wrong. Just because a neighbor commits suicide is not the justification for submitting to tyranny.

I have been able to find only one source for the figure of seven million, from a Russian writing in Pravda, who used obviously ridiculous methodology to come up with this figure. he took an estimate made in 1930 of the number of citizens they projected to be alive in 1940, then subtracted the number of Americans reported in the 1940 census. He attributed almost the entire difference to deaths by starvation!! Entirely ignored was the fact that folks during the Depression had far fewer children than in the Roaring 20’s. This decade of childbirths is famously known as the ‘birth dearth’, with the lowest birth rate before the 1960’s.