How detached from reality do you have to be to think that it would have been a good thing had the country already collapsed into a depression so your hero could look good? I have a tough time talking with this sort of people but I keep trying. Now that several of them are worried about keeping their homes, they may finally have to stick their heads out of the fantasy they live in and look around.
Reading
The Forgotten Man by Amity Shales
It’s an accounting of everything FDR did to prolong the depression.
O is following along precisely. BEWARE
We are about at the Keynsean Economic endpoit. The economy is unstimulable without total and complete change away form socialist government control. In short the government is broke and the enablers at the Fed are out of tools to help them.
>>How detached from reality do you have to be to think that it would have been a good thing had the country already collapsed into a depression so your hero could look good?<<
Hey, there are people here on FR who want the economy to collapse so they can show how prepared they are.
Can’t wait for the dust bowl. Yes indeedee Happy Days are here again!! Bonus marchers and fireside chats from Obama should be next. From now on, we should only take his picture in black and white so that he can get more in touch with his hero FDR...
I think the main difference between now and the 1930’s is that now the gubmint is paying everybody not to work.............with credit cards.................from the Chicoms.
That should end well!
Real unemployment is not far off from 25%.
There are ~40 million people food shopping with an EBT card. They would all be in a soup line without it.
Times *are* that bad. And the Dems are doing nothing to help.
Roosevelt only had AM radio and newpapers to deal with not cable news and the internet. My grandparents were not going to know anything about different economic theories, or even much about what Roosevelt was doing. She didnt know he was trying to keep food prices up while millions of kids went to bed hungry.
The article also points out that back then building projects like bridges could be started right away, where now they may take a decade to get get started.
Lastly Roosevelt destroyed crops to help the farmers (food prices from collapsing) while millions of people waited on breadlines for ‘day old bread’ for their families. But now food prices are rising on their own (maybe food stamps and other programs help ) while houses are being foreclosed on and workers are being laid off.
Talk to a liberal who believes in FDR, they will always end with "WWII ended the depression". You can see the problem with that analogy.
FDR was a Communist.
” democrats who are disappointed that the economy didn’t collapse into soup lines and 25% unemployment “
But it did.
We have 41 million on food stamps, that is modern version of a soup line. There are only 80 million households in the US.
We have a minimum of 29% unemployment. Obama simply plays funny with the numbers to say even though there are more and more unemployed the percent unemployed never goes above 9.5%.
Democrats want this country to collapse with them in charge. Shortly after 9/11, the dim media was all in a tizzy because bill clinton wasn’t in power when the attack happened. And the reason was that he would have an opportunity to shine. Just flat out sick.