That isn't the real issue, however. For anyone with an iota of commonsense this is simple to understand.
You posted that 7-15 million Americans died during the Great Depression from "starvation". That is a massive number and one you can't back up with any substantive factual accounts, and for good reason. Its simply not true.
There were a grand total of some 15 million deaths from 1929-1939. While not perfect, the CDC statistics I supplied you a link to, are the most comprehensive facts on the historic record. They clearly indicate the spike in deaths from the 1918 flu pandemic. There is no reason to doubt their general reliability factor in this case.
There was massive poverty, unemployment, malnutrition and chronic illness related to poor medical health care in America, during the Great Depression. However, the history written about the 1930`s says nothing about 7-15 million deaths from starvation related to the Great Depression or the policies of President Hoover.
My Mother and Father, Grandparents, Uncles and Aunts lived as adults during the First World War, the 1918 flu pandemic, the Roaring 20's, the Great Depression and WWII. They never said anything about people dying from starvation. They did say that people were hungry. But nothing about 7-15 million people dying. My Mother came from rural coal mining Johnstown Pennsylvania and my Dad from urban NYCity. I heard about the details of the Great Depression my entire childhood. Nothing was ever written about 7-15 million Americans dead from starvation.
The policies of FDR's New Deal were an utter failure and actually made the Great Depression last longer then it should have. His tax increases in 1936 drove up unemployment and ended what had been a short period of economic recovery. GDP didn't rebound until the US got involved in WWII.
You need to do your homework and then come back if you want to engage in intelligent and serious debate on FRee Republic. Right now, you're just embarrassing yourself.
You want to believe this...go ahead...let’s see people who live in a city and can’t grow anything...no jobs and no food...I’m sure they were just fine.
You embarrass yourself with revisionist history...written by those with similar ideology as yours.
What I find hillarious is my grandmother, as much as a demogogue and FDR/New Dealer Socialist sycophant as she was, NEVER mentioned anything about mass-starvations (millions ! millions !), only about unemployment and the kids in her classes being dirty because they didn’t bathe (indeed, she often had to give the young ‘uns a bath). Believe me, if all these Stalinesque-level “mass deaths due to deliberate starvations from Hoover !” had occurred, my grandmother would’ve NEVER let me hear the end of it. She could turn out some whoppers, but never hatched that level of bull$hit.
I’ve done in-depth studies of census figures, and if those mass-scale deaths had occurred, it would’ve been reflected. While it is true many rural areas went into decline, many (especially in the Plains States) had been in population decline since the 1890s, but the people merely relocated to the cities, which exploded in growth. You had a different reason for the decline in Southern rural areas, because most of those were Blacks fleeing for better opportunities in the cities.
Of course, the lady will cite all these mass deaths were “off the record.” It’s easy to pull figures out of your ass when there’s no documentation and an “excuse” for it (nobody recording the births and deaths ! Honest ! Give me a break). Indeed, non existent people dying non existent deaths. That lady is exhibit #A for why the Democrats have always been so successful at winning elections. Keep repeating a lie until the people accept it as fact. We saw it in this past election.