To: rktman
Investments made during the war mobilization yielded a robust middle class and decades of sustained, broadly shared prosperity. Misleading, they neglect to add that the U.S.A. was largely untouched by war, while other nations were devastated by war and our productivity rebuilt other nations and supplied products worldwide. Other countries were crippled while we were productive. FDR got way too much credit for our postwar growth, while he was largely to blame for prolonging the depression.
4 posted on
08/10/2020 9:57:56 PM PDT by
roadcat
To: roadcat
........ FDR got way too much credit for our postwar growth, while he was largely to blame for prolonging the depression. VERY TRUE
Bears Repeating!
21 posted on
08/10/2020 10:36:59 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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To: roadcat
Absolutely correct. We were left with massive manufacturing capability, desperate need outside the US, and virtually no competition.
I suppose that if we could ward off the “incoming” easily, we could bomb most of the rest of the world to hell, and it’d all work again...
38 posted on
08/11/2020 12:28:19 AM PDT by
Paul R.
(The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
To: roadcat
Why we need really high import tariff and the USA would be self sufficient very quickly - again.
53 posted on
08/11/2020 4:07:18 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: roadcat
Misleading, they neglect to add that the U.S.A. was largely untouched by war, while other nations were devastated by war... Bingo! The Marshall Plan did as much for America as it did for Europe. Where did all that stuff the Europeans used come from?
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