Please, if you were so knowledgeable about statistics, you would know that such statistics from the 1930’s are not accurate as people lived and died at home or on the road often without benefit of a birth certificate or a death certificate. This is why we will never know how many perished in the great depression specifically between 1929 and 1933, when Roosevelt sent help to ordinary Americans.
In fact, those at most risk would not have been counted as many were on the move after the dust bowl and losing their homes.If you believe that no one died during the depression via hunger or other depression related ways, then you are incorrect and your opinion is unreasonable...based on ideology rather than logic.
This is not a partisan issue. History is what it is...Hoover’s policies worsened the economic crisis...particularly the fed policy and many believe Smoot-Hawley (I don’t). Roosevelt lowered the unemployment rate significantly (those figures don’t even count the WPA and CCC jobs as well as other ‘government’ employment) and kept people going. It was 20 years before Americans took a change on a GOP president.
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.