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To: Nathan Zachary

“That’s right, lets just have a good old fashion 25 year depression! Lets millions starve in the streets- THATS Capitolizm by golly!”

“Let(s)? millions starve in the streets.” Idiotic statement in the least. I don’t know what your experience in a “depression” is, but I lived through the one before WWII. Nobody, and I repeat nobody reportedly “starved in the streets”..Your fear mongering won’t wash.
As someone else has posted, do we bail out everyone who has made a bad investment reguardless of their circumstances?.
Oh, by the way, why the spelling of Capitolizm? instead of Capitolism?....just what the he** is the message there?


18 posted on 09/22/2008 10:08:27 PM PDT by Islander2 (Abort Planned Parenthood and other abortuaries)
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To: Islander2
"but I lived through the one before WWII. Nobody, and I repeat nobody reportedly “starved in the streets”.

Maybe not your street.

But lots of people literally starved. thousands road the rails from one end of the country to another trying to find work. Families lost their homes and lived homeless while trying to cross the country looking for better times.

I may have missed the 30's depression, but my parents didn't.

27 posted on 09/22/2008 10:44:25 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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By 1934 over 9000 banks closed their doors, and one out of every four workers was unemployed.

On top of that, farming collapsed, caused by a combination of poor farming practices and a 7 year drought.

The drought became so prominent that 27 states, or 75% of the country was under its effect. To escape the “Dust Bowl” many people traveled thousands of miles to the west coast looking for opportunities that did not exist there either.


29 posted on 09/22/2008 10:52:35 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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