Posted on 04/03/2009 8:24:10 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
Every so often, history serves up an analogy that’s uncomfortable, a little distracting and yet still very relevant. In the summer of 1933, just as they will do on Thursday, heads of government and their finance ministers met in London to talk about a global economic crisis. They accomplished little and went home to battle the crisis in their own ways.
More than any other country, Germany — Nazi Germany — then set out on a serious stimulus program. The government built up the military, expanded the autobahn, put up stadiums for the 1936 Berlin Olympics and built monuments to the Nazi Party across Munich and Berlin.
The economic benefits of this vast works program never flowed to most workers, because fascism doesn’t look kindly on collective bargaining. But Germany did escape the Great Depression faster than other countries. Corporate profits boomed, and unemployment sank (and not because of slave labor, which didn’t become widespread until later). Harold James, an economic historian, says that the young liberal economists studying under John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s began to debate whether Hitler had solved unemployment.
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April 02, 2009
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Keller: Times will be ‘left standing after the deluge’
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller spoke at Stanford Thursday to mark the opening of a new building for The Stanford Daily...Commenting on the keep-the-Times alive movement, Keller said: “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”
A better comparison is to Italy Fascist party. Theres slight differences to the left wing parties. National Socialist, nationalize just important industries while leaving some private. Fascism controls private industries thru draconian regulations. Communism don’t pretend and go right to nationlize everything
As even liberals begin to catch the whiff of fascism from Treasury Secretary Geithner’s office, it is up to the NYT to helpfully point out to us bumpkins that even Hitler had his good ideas...
For the first time in years, NYT gets one right. Objective observers have been comparing our Dear Socialist Leader, Barry Barack Judas Hussain Iscariot Soetoro Obama, to his fellow national socialist for months, and it's about time the NYT caught on.
Obama really IS the liberal messiah. He can do anything he wants. He is beyond reproach—if you question his motives, methods, or goals, then you are RACIST (even if you’re black). One key difference: Hitler sought to make Germany a great power. Obama seeks to strip America of her greatness and make her just another cog in an international collective.
BUMP!
Well they did say fascism works...
As a people, are we really that different from Germans?
Do we not share the same drives, fears and passions that are common to the human condition?
All we need is a charismatic foreign born leader for the analogy to be complete...
Without that pesky ‘Jewish problem’, of course.
And the funny thing is that the US is vying to host the 2016 Olympics—in Chicago, no less.
Scary.
Mussolini is the better fascist comparo for Obama, by far.
Well, we all know how Hitler ‘solved’ the unemployment problem by ‘eliminating’ the excess in the work force....
I only wish people who discuss Hitler actually knew what they were talking about. Seems daily we’re losing those who did know who Hitler was. Thus, the historical revisionists emerge.
I thought this was one board where we could get away from the New York Times. Nonetheless, the article makes it pretty clear that Obama has decided to emulate his hero Adolf in bringing National Socialism to America, before he hands it over to the Muslim terrorists.
*Corporate profits boomed, and unemployment sank (and not because of slave labor, which didn’t become widespread until later). *
Wouldn’t slave labor increase unemployment—assuming that you are importing the labor [as the Germans did, for the most part], thereby displacing domestic workers?
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