[listenhillary]

Unemployment figures
1936
17.0

1937
14.3

1938
19.0

1939
17.2

1940
14.6

[nyconse]

It should be noted that in 1936, Roosevelt who believed in a balance budget attempted to do just that...the result was a recession...unemployment jumped in 1937.

[familyop]

Where did you get your numbers, and why did you not select honestly representative samples? Have a look at some honesty and truth...or not. It's up to you and all other readers of this comment.

Rome was not destroyed in a day, so that better people could live. See the effects of the Smoot-Hawley Act on unemployment rates below, with the fact that other economics indicators also rose in 1934 and afterward (should be common knowledge, if it were not for so many purely dishonest and evil special interest journalists today).

Compensation from before World War I through the Great Depression

by Robert VanGiezen and Albert E. Schwenk
Bureau of Labor Statistics

John T. Dunlop and Walter Galenson, eds., Labor in the Twentieth Century (New York, Academic Press, 1978), p. 30.

Dunlop and Galenson, p. 27.

Year	Unemployment rate
1923-29	3.3
1930	8.9
1931	15.9
1932	23.6
1933	24.9
1934	21.7
1935	20.1
1936	17.0
1937	14.3
1938	19.0
1939	17.2
1940	14.6
1941	9.9
1942	4.7