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re: Has a Democrat POTUS ever ENDED a recession by being elected and enacting Dem policies?

Posted on 8/22/19 at 12:02 am to
Posted by stuntman
Florida
Member since Jan 2013
9095 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 12:02 am to
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Has a Democrat POTUS ever ENDED a recession by being elected and enacting Dem policies?
FDR


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To be fair, WWII had more to do with that than his social programs


The END of WW2 is what got us out of it. During WW2, food was being rationed and people were still dirt poor.

Unemployment numbers went down, but that's because millions of working age men went to war. GDP went up because government spent like crazy on military equipment, which does nothing to improve people's standard of living.

But, when all that spending and central planning ended, then the economy was finally able to recover.

Posted by crazyatthecamp
Member since Nov 2006
2100 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 12:07 am to
My progressive friends certainly would say Obama.

To their line of thinking the Bush presidents took the economy down and Clinton and Obama bailed them out.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
123885 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 5:58 am to
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To be fair, WWII had more to do with that than his social programs
WWII was his social program. FDR expertly navigated the US to that end.
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:00 am to
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Obama didn't cause a recession



Democrats who think just like him did.
Posted by TopFlightSecurity
Watertown, NY
Member since Dec 2018
1318 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:07 am to
Yes Obama.Took over a crashing economy, housing crisis, multiple wars, trillion dollar deficit and grew the economy and had reduced the deficit all while being stonewalled at every turn by Republicans.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
123885 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:20 am to
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Read some history.
You're back online?
You deny FDR's policies were designed to insert us into WWII, yet tell me to "read some history."

Oh my, that is funny.
Posted by Gaspergou202
Metairie, LA
Member since Jun 2016
13494 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:20 am to
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I'd love to hear you elaborate on this completely worthless statement.

You don’t think libtards want their 1960s back?
How ‘bout the Ferguson Race Riot?
They were even calling police officers pigs again! “Pigs in a blanket! Fry ‘em like bacon!”
Or how about athletes grandstanding for racial pimpery?
“The police acted stupidly?”
“If I had a son, he would LOOK like Trayvon.”
Hell, even the New Black Panthers were able to publicly threaten physical harm to Zimmerman the Jewish Latino without any repercussions!
Posted by TenWheelsForJesus
Member since Jan 2018
6489 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:20 am to
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WWII was his social program. FDR expertly navigated the US to that end.


And he only sacrificed 400,000 of our best men for his program. Awesome.

I'll give him credit for bankrupting the British, though. He gave them help like a mafia boss would.
Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
49169 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:21 am to
I don't think you know who you are talking too.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
123885 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:24 am to
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I don't think you know who you are talking too.
Likewise.
I'm responding to a post. Did you not write it?
Posted by Geauxst Writer
Atlanta
Member since Dec 2015
4960 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:24 am to
Clinton and Obama both took the country out of recession from Republican administrations.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
123885 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:27 am to
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And he only sacrificed 400,000 of our best men for his program. Awesome.
Bingo!
. . . and that is how a Democrat POTUS ended a recession by being elected and enacting Dem policies. Lovely, isn't it?

Posted by Geauxst Writer
Atlanta
Member since Dec 2015
4960 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:30 am to
You are correct. Obama inherited a disaster and elevated the country out of near 1929 caliber depression and handed Trump a good economy.
Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
49169 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:30 am to
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You're back online? You deny FDR's policies were designed to insert us into WWII, yet tell me to "read some history."


I don't recall ever saying that he did not get us into the war. Certainly not in this thread. However, anything to do with that came a good 6+ years after he took office in 1933. And the Depression was still in full force. Nothing was done as far as building up the military until late 1940, over 7 years into his Presidency.

So, to say that FDR's economic policies got us out of the Depression is ridiculous.

So yes, read some history you hack.

No idea what the "you're back online" comment is about.
Posted by bmy
Nashville
Member since Oct 2007
48203 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:39 am to
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Obama did hurt the economy and unemployment. He really hurt manufacturing jobs, and oil and gas jobs. He started a two year recession at least.


Obama lifted a 40-year ban on oil exports and was president during one of the largest construction booms in US history
Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
123885 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:54 am to
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I don't recall ever saying that he did not get us into the war.
Either he did, or he didn't. Your "read some history" response dictates FDR policy did not lead us to war.

Though economists would argue technicalities as to specifically when the US shed shackles of the Depression, none would argue that by the end of WWII, we had entered a new economic era.

Nine years of expansive government and feckless results preceded Pearl Harbor. Without WWII, we'd have had more of the same. But that was not to be. FDR did navigate us into the war.

We exited WWII in a new economic paradigm.
So there it is.

War is the example of Democrat policy employed to end an economic downturn.
When you tell someone making that assertion to read some history, you look silly.
This post was edited on 8/22/19 at 6:55 am
Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
49169 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:56 am to
Go ahead and die on your hill. Your argument is dumb.
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:58 am to
Carter wasn’t great for the economy.
Posted by tigeraddict
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2007
11803 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 6:59 am to
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FDR




some argue that his policies extended the depression. if you look at the rest of the world, their recessions ended much earlier. but, the US had additional factors (dust bowl/drought) that effected us differently. also, the start of the war and the "total war" effort pulled us out.
Posted by Gaspergou202
Metairie, LA
Member since Jun 2016
13494 posts
Posted on 8/22/19 at 7:06 am to
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Clinton and Obama both took the country out of recession from Republican administrations.

I see you paid close attention to your classes under Mrs. Teachers Union in Libtard High.
Good job.
Unfortunately she sold you a lie!

The recession in Bush the Elders term ended before Clinton’s inauguration.

And Obama only lengthened our economic woes. Trump’s economy is how you “take the country out of recession”!

The shovel ready jobs weren’t so shovel ready!
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