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re: An insight into the great depression.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 6:13 pm to Deplorableinohio
Posted on 8/17/26 at 6:13 pm to Deplorableinohio
quote:
New Deal got us out of the depression.
My old man was about as Republican as you got but gave FDR full credit for the PWA and WPA and its effect to train unskilled labor on much needed infrastructure and create long term skilled workers for skilled (better paying) jobs. After WWII that was one thing he wanted therm to bring back and make permanent.
Thought every man out of high school should spend next two years
a) military service
or
b) peace corp
or
c) what became Americorp (a merger of PWA + WPA + projects to build US infrastructure)
Thought all 3 taught respect and giving back to something bigger than yourself (narcissist need not apply).
Posted on 8/17/26 at 6:27 pm to Cheese Grits
I agree with your dad about two years mandatory public service of some sort.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 7:10 pm to Jim Rockford
FDR used the Great Depression to enact all kinds of socialist programs that we're stuck with to this day. It's not a new thing for Dems to make use of every crisis to advance socialist policies.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 7:29 pm to Cheese Grits
quote:
My old man was about as Republican as you got but gave FDR full credit for the PWA and WPA and its effect to train unskilled labor on much needed infrastructure and create long term skilled workers for skilled (better paying) jobs. After WWII that was one thing he wanted therm to bring back and make permanent.
Thought every man out of high school should spend next two years
a) military service
or
b) peace corp
or
c) what became Americorp (a merger of PWA + WPA + projects to build US infrastructure)
Thought all 3 taught respect and giving back to something bigger than yourself (narcissist need not apply).
Posted on 8/17/26 at 7:43 pm to Lou Loomis
quote:
The Great Depression we were taught and is still taught today is an exaggerated myth. Most people lived on farms back then and they grew their own food so they never missed a meal. But if you look at the popular versions, nobody had a job and everybody was starving. It’s just not true. It didn’t affect as many people as they would have you believe.
But combine millions of newly arrived unskilled immigrants with a tightening money supply and you get a crappy economy
Man, you have no idea what the hell you are talking about!
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