What the new deal accomplished

evince said:
But remember hes a horrible freedom stealer in your mind.


Trying to pretend that freedoms are being taken away by the new deal is complete stupidity.

Your guy tried to claim Habeaus Corpus was not guarnateed and I never saw you flinch.
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You're wasting your Breath. To these libertarian types their idea of a great President is Warren G. Harding. He did less to abridge any freedoms than any President. The fact that this was so because he was so utterly incompetent he couldn't get anything done seems to be beside the point.
 
Harding got us out of the postwar recession and died with a booming economy going on about him. He also pardoned Debbs and got him out of prison.
 
He was also borderline retarded and hired some of the most corrupt people possible to run his administration.

Hardings mostly just an easy target because he hardly did anything and what happened from his sheer negligence was awful. The pardoning of Debs was just a bright spot.
 
The New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression. It wasn't until 1937, when FDR (under political pressure) lowered the marginal tax rates, that things started to turn around. Obama plans to increase marginal tax rates, which will push us deeper into recession. Also, many will contend, WWII had as much to do with bringing us out of a depression than anything else.
 
Dixie said:
The New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression. It wasn't until 1937, when FDR (under political pressure) lowered the marginal tax rates, that things started to turn around. Obama plans to increase marginal tax rates, which will push us deeper into recession. Also, many will contend, WWII had as much to do with bringing us out of a depression than anything else.
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The problem is that war doesn't necessarily raise our own economy anymore because we contract out to other nations for things like helicopters and planes nowadays.

Plus bombing things isn't really the way most people want to go about raising the economy.

People have this all out of perspective. This recession still isn't even as deep as 1981. People are projecting it to get worse but projections in today's economies trend toward incorrect more often than correct.
 
It is rather amazing how some can look back at a history they did do not know, and then tell you something or another failed. In their crystal ball heads are all the alternatives laid out so orderly complexity becomes a matter of clarity. Dixie would argue against anything if he thought it supported his opponent's point of view, but we must write for the non Dixies, the people who still think and are open to ideas. Here are few sites, hope they help real understanding.

great depression
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/connections_n2/great_depression.html
http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch15wd.html
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Summary.htm
http://gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/
Amazon.com: The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions): Eric Rauchway: Books
 
Damocles said:
The problem is that war doesn't necessarily raise our own economy anymore because we contract out to other nations for things like helicopters and planes nowadays.

Plus bombing things isn't really the way most people want to go about raising the economy.

People have this all out of perspective. This recession still isn't even as deep as 1981. People are projecting it to get worse but projections in today's economies trend toward incorrect more often than correct.
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I agree, though all the money that is going to be thrown hither and yon is not going to help down the road.
 
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