What planet are they on ?

swordofislam wrote: »

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I don't understand what you are on about.
I don't understand how you can assume I am poor or indeed rich.
BTW I am neither.
I am one of those in the middle who happens to pay for the fookups and tax loopholes of a chunk of the rich and the laziness of some of the poor. :mad:

Permabear wrote: »

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Thanks for links.
BTW what do you think he should have done.
Sat and let the market sort it out ?

Permabear wrote: »

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I didn't say that they were justified by having a power grab and ending up as the primary super power.
I said it was an result of them entering the war.
The justification was really to stop some countries who were led by some not very nice people invading other countries and slaughtering innocent people they considered lesser human beings.
Oh and if you check the Japanese they had a superiority complex every bit as much as the Germans.
They just never turned into an industrial operation.

Ehh please tell me why the US should have stayed out of the war and secondly do you think that we in this part of the world would have benefitted from their non participation ?

Now I hope people don't start some sh** about how bad the Allies were and that they were no better than the Axis forces.
The answer to that is the DEATH CAMPS and Nanking.

I seriously cannot believe someone of your intelligence thinks it would be better off for everyone if the US had not entered the war. :eek:

jmayo wrote: »

So pray tell us with all your wisdom what should he have done to shorten the depression ?

Cut spending and cut taxes like they did for the 1920-21 depression and not go around regulating everything that moved.

Bloody hell.
Funny how most US scholars disagree. :rolleyes:

What was so great about him? He was an evil person that did a great amount of damage during his presidency.

Yeah bush was fooking great and ronnie was a wet dream for the neo liberals.
Except the seeds that old ronnie sowed ultimately resulted in the banking meltdown.
Oh and his tax regime increased the gulf between rich and middle class never mind the poor.
Added to that he tripled the debt.
And guess who appointed mr greenspan?

Bush and Reagan were both pretty poor presidents. It just shows ho bad FDR was that both of them were better.

What did Reagan do that sowed the seeds for the current crisis apart from hiring Greenspan?

So what if income inequality increased because of his tax system? Who cares? His tax system helped America recover from the lost decade of the seventies.

irishh_bob wrote: »

one of the reasons the usa is so rich is because it has invaded and interfered with other nations since the end of WW2

How did it become so rich before WW2 then?

swordofislam wrote: »

The 1920-21 depression and the 1929 depression had different causes. Why would the same medicine be applicable?

So what if they had different causes? They were the same disease so the same cure would have worked.

Further could I have say 150 examples of regulations imposed in the early new deal period?

Are you asking me to list out 150 examples imposed during the earlier part of the new deal?

swordofislam wrote: »

By killing Indians and enslaving blacks.

How on earth would either of those things make them rich? The US economy started to grow faster after they abolished slavery. Also the states with slavery were poorer than the ones without.