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Fri Sep-16-11 06:10 PM
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| 1. 2 1/2 years is WAAAY to long to wave a magic wand! |
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And just like it takes time for progress to happen is the same reason we're still in a Bush economy.
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| -What ended the Great Depression. |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:07 PM |
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2 1/2 years is WAAAY to long to wave a magic wand! |
FarLeftFist |
Sep-16-11 06:10 PM |
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According to my parents and Grandma |
HockeyMom |
Sep-16-11 06:10 PM |
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And the cost was too high. |
earthside |
Sep-16-11 06:16 PM |
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War and killing didn't do it... |
JuniperLea |
Sep-16-11 06:20 PM |
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The reason the Iraq & Afghanistan wars didn't help, I think, is because of manufacturing.... |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:19 PM |
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And also because quite a bit of the money was pissed away on private contractors n/t |
eridani |
Sep-16-11 08:16 PM |
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We still manufacture military hardware |
jmowreader |
Sep-17-11 12:23 AM |
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WW2 |
rug |
Sep-16-11 06:11 PM |
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you answered your own question -- WW2 in 1941 ended it |
banned from Kos |
Sep-16-11 06:12 PM |
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And it took defense-related jobs & drafting men & women |
The_Casual_Observer |
Sep-16-11 06:13 PM |
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None of what I posted said anything about the "free market" fixing it. It was FDR's new deal... |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:22 PM |
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WPA |
FarLeftFist |
Sep-16-11 06:14 PM |
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That's what scares me. |
KamaAina |
Sep-16-11 06:14 PM |
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No, well, we have a nuclear button, now. yikes. Besides, we don't manufacture |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:23 PM |
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WWII was NOT the reason... |
JuniperLea |
Sep-16-11 06:18 PM |
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World War II spending. |
roamer65 |
Sep-16-11 06:19 PM |
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I know the common wisdom is WWII ended it, but it was actually the spending |
DJ13 |
Sep-16-11 06:21 PM |
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Well, that's what people mean when they say WWII ended it. They mean it was |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:35 PM |
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This time we've already got the defense related jobs |
Pyrzqxgl |
Sep-16-11 06:22 PM |
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This time....we don't build the tanks and such. America is no longer the steel capital |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:26 PM |
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According to Nobel Prize Winning Paul Krugman |
ChandlerJr |
Sep-16-11 06:23 PM |
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Don't forget all the people employed in America. Rosie the Riveter. |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:28 PM |
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That raises the issue of why haven't the wars in Iraq |
treestar |
Sep-16-11 08:23 PM |
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2 main items |
ChandlerJr |
Sep-16-11 09:57 PM |
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The baby boom was after the war and recovery. Our recession is.. |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 11:39 PM |
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Gov programs alone COULD have ended the GD. OP quote and i disagree. I say Gov programs could have |
sam11111 |
Sep-16-11 06:24 PM |
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If the US would $pend as much on the War on Poverty as it did on WWII |
leftstreet |
Sep-16-11 06:30 PM |
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Unemployment rates for 1932 - 1946 |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:31 PM |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended the Great Depression, He was a Democrat who acted like a Democrat. |
ThomWV |
Sep-16-11 06:27 PM |
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Yeah. They broke the mold on people like him, I think. What a man. nt |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 06:32 PM |
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All by himself? Don't think so. |
treestar |
Sep-16-11 08:23 PM |
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Well it took Bush a decade |
malaise |
Sep-16-11 06:36 PM |
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FDR did something else - huge |
whosinpower |
Sep-16-11 06:53 PM |
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There are a great many parallels between the Great Depression and |
Gman |
Sep-16-11 07:13 PM |
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it was the massive keynesian stimulus of federal spending prompted by wwii. |
unblock |
Sep-16-11 07:43 PM |
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In a way, it was socialism that saved us... |
misanthrope |
Sep-16-11 07:54 PM |
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That it took that long reflected that the government wasn't spending enough money |
eridani |
Sep-16-11 08:14 PM |
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WW2 spending. But *we're* already in FIVE wars & it's not helping. |
DrunkenBoat |
Sep-16-11 10:13 PM |
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We're just in two...Afgh. & Iraq. And they're small. And America doesn't manufacture... |
Honeycombe8 |
Sep-16-11 11:34 PM |
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We're in 5 wars. You just don't hear about them on TV. The US is the world's top manufacturer. |
DrunkenBoat |
Sep-17-11 07:37 AM |
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What percentage of the US population is actively engaged in your "5" wars? |
David Sky |
Sep-17-11 07:51 AM |
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As in manufacturing, the percentage of population engaged is irrelevant. |
DrunkenBoat |
Sep-17-11 08:33 AM |
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In some ways things are even worse now. The Great Depression was a recoverable situation.. |
DCBob |
Sep-17-11 07:44 AM |
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It does take some time to end it - but that only starts when people recognize the depth |
jtuck004 |
Sep-17-11 11:48 AM |
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