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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-11 06:20 PM
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12. War and killing didn't do it...
The stimulus of the money we spent ended the depression.
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  -What ended the Great Depression. Honeycombe8  Sep-16-11 06:07 PM   #0 
  - 2 1/2 years is WAAAY to long to wave a magic wand!  FarLeftFist   Sep-16-11 06:10 PM   #1 
  - According to my parents and Grandma  HockeyMom   Sep-16-11 06:10 PM   #2 
  - And the cost was too high.  earthside   Sep-16-11 06:16 PM   #8 
  - War and killing didn't do it...  JuniperLea   Sep-16-11 06:20 PM   #12 
  - The reason the Iraq & Afghanistan wars didn't help, I think, is because of manufacturing....  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 06:19 PM   #11 
     - And also because quite a bit of the money was pissed away on private contractors n/t  eridani   Sep-16-11 08:16 PM   #32 
     - We still manufacture military hardware  jmowreader   Sep-17-11 12:23 AM   #39 
  - WW2  rug   Sep-16-11 06:11 PM   #3 
  - you answered your own question -- WW2 in 1941 ended it  banned from Kos   Sep-16-11 06:12 PM   #4 
  - And it took defense-related jobs & drafting men & women  The_Casual_Observer   Sep-16-11 06:13 PM   #5 
  - 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   #15 
  - WPA  FarLeftFist   Sep-16-11 06:14 PM   #6 
  - That's what scares me.  KamaAina   Sep-16-11 06:14 PM   #7 
  - No, well, we have a nuclear button, now. yikes. Besides, we don't manufacture  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 06:23 PM   #16 
  - WWII was NOT the reason...  JuniperLea   Sep-16-11 06:18 PM   #9 
  - World War II spending.  roamer65   Sep-16-11 06:19 PM   #10 
  - I know the common wisdom is WWII ended it, but it was actually the spending  DJ13   Sep-16-11 06:21 PM   #13 
  - Well, that's what people mean when they say WWII ended it. They mean it was  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 06:35 PM   #25 
  - This time we've already got the defense related jobs  Pyrzqxgl   Sep-16-11 06:22 PM   #14 
  - This time....we don't build the tanks and such. America is no longer the steel capital  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 06:26 PM   #19 
  - According to Nobel Prize Winning Paul Krugman  ChandlerJr   Sep-16-11 06:23 PM   #17 
  - Don't forget all the people employed in America. Rosie the Riveter.  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 06:28 PM   #21 
  - That raises the issue of why haven't the wars in Iraq  treestar   Sep-16-11 08:23 PM   #33 
     - 2 main items  ChandlerJr   Sep-16-11 09:57 PM   #35 
     - The baby boom was after the war and recovery. Our recession is..  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 11:39 PM   #38 
  - 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   #18 
  - If the US would $pend as much on the War on Poverty as it did on WWII  leftstreet   Sep-16-11 06:30 PM   #22 
  - Unemployment rates for 1932 - 1946  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 06:31 PM   #23 
  - Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended the Great Depression, He was a Democrat who acted like a Democrat.  ThomWV   Sep-16-11 06:27 PM   #20 
  - Yeah. They broke the mold on people like him, I think. What a man. nt  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 06:32 PM   #24 
  - All by himself? Don't think so.  treestar   Sep-16-11 08:23 PM   #34 
  - Well it took Bush a decade  malaise   Sep-16-11 06:36 PM   #26 
  - FDR did something else - huge  whosinpower   Sep-16-11 06:53 PM   #27 
  - There are a great many parallels between the Great Depression and  Gman   Sep-16-11 07:13 PM   #28 
  - it was the massive keynesian stimulus of federal spending prompted by wwii.  unblock   Sep-16-11 07:43 PM   #29 
  - In a way, it was socialism that saved us...  misanthrope   Sep-16-11 07:54 PM   #30 
  - That it took that long reflected that the government wasn't spending enough money  eridani   Sep-16-11 08:14 PM   #31 
  - WW2 spending. But *we're* already in FIVE wars & it's not helping.  DrunkenBoat   Sep-16-11 10:13 PM   #36 
  - We're just in two...Afgh. & Iraq. And they're small. And America doesn't manufacture...  Honeycombe8   Sep-16-11 11:34 PM   #37 
     - 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   #40 
        - What percentage of the US population is actively engaged in your "5" wars?  David Sky   Sep-17-11 07:51 AM   #42 
           - As in manufacturing, the percentage of population engaged is irrelevant.  DrunkenBoat   Sep-17-11 08:33 AM   #43 
  - In some ways things are even worse now. The Great Depression was a recoverable situation..  DCBob   Sep-17-11 07:44 AM   #41 
  - It does take some time to end it - but that only starts when people recognize the depth  jtuck004   Sep-17-11 11:48 AM   #44 
 

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