Great Myths About the Great Depression Still Abound

Capitol Confidential ^ | 8/21/2011 | Tom Gantert

[TexasTransplant]

FDR was the originator of “Never let a good crisis go to waste”

TT

[ken5050]

The best deconstruction of the New Deal is Amity Shlaes’ book ( I can’t recall the title)...a really good read

[joe fonebone]

bump for later

[HereInTheHeartland]

I have this bookmarked:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2285846/posts

[Blood of Tyrants]

FDR’s socialist policies made a depression into a Great Depression. Just google “FDR made the Great Depression worse” and you will get a LOT of hits explaining it.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Amity Shlaes’ the forgotten man is a great and balanced (non polemic) take down of the New Deal. She is not an FDR or New Deal “hater”, more a regretter. It would be wonderful if the government had a magic lever they could adjust to fix the economy. No such lever exists.

http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depression/dp/0060936428/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

[Outlaw Woman]

My mom was a very young girl during the depression and FDR’s presidency but the one thing that is burned into her memory is FDR stating that there would be a chicken for every ‘cookpot’ in America. For her to remember that shows (imo) how FDR set himself up as a ‘savior’ by his rhetoric. To this day she can hardly believe that he made things worse with his policies.

[ken5050]

At his funeral, someone commented that for over 50% of Americans, he was the only president they had any real awareness of...

[FightThePower!]

FDR also threw American citizens in concentration camps. He was scum.

[mlo]

"My mom was a very young girl during the depression and FDR’s presidency but the one thing that is burned into her memory is FDR stating that there would be a chicken for every ‘cookpot’ in America. For her to remember that shows (imo) how FDR set himself up as a ‘savior’ by his rhetoric. To this day she can hardly believe that he made things worse with his policies."

Then here's a learning opportunity for your mom. "a chicken in every pot" wasn't even FDR. It was Herbert Hoover.

[Outlaw Woman]

Wasn’t he into a fourth term when he died? This said he served 12 years. In any case, that’s a pretty stunning figure if true.

What kind of a wartime president was he? His record is barely touched on (not like his economic record). I’ve not done enough reading on him to know.

[Mach9]

Very good book. She’s got to be John Shlaes’ daughter, but I’ve never seen any reference at all to her father. He worked for Nixon in ‘68 & ‘72, under Len Garment & John Mitchell in New York.

[Little Bill]

Burt Folsom, go to AMAZON, and buy his books, excellent.

[T-Bird45]

Allow me to add my strong recommendation for Amity Shlaes’ book, The Forgotten Man. My parents both became teenagers during the Great Depression so I heard plenty of stories from them and my mom’s parents. Of course, every community experienced it differently in many ways but there were some common themes across the nation that Shlaes reports very well. A very good, fact-based book!

[safeasthebanks]

Yep, another thing his liberal worshippers have basically gotten tossed down the memory hole. What a disgrace.

[muir_redwoods]

It's called "The Forgotten Man" and it is worth everyones time to read it. F'ing Dope Roosevelt about destroyed this country with his harebrained scams and plots. People were going hungry in this country, real starvation and his solution was to burn crops, pour milk into rivers and kill and bury pigs so farm prices would rise. That didn't work.

FDR war far and away the worst president we ever had. Germany had Hitler, Italy had Mussolini, USSR had Stalin and we had FDR.

[Melas]

That was Hoover that promised a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot.

[Sergio]

Bkmk.

[dfwgator]

That was Hoover that promised a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot.

Libertarians promise pot in every chicken.