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I can't any more than you can prove it didn't, but you can look at this..[^]
fat_boy wrote:
Of course, as we know the US has two real problems:
There is no possible way for the US to retain its 20th century economic hegemony into the future short of a military conquest of the rest of the world. It is absolutely inevitable, regardless of any economic policy the US takes, that we will either be dragged down to the standard of living of the rest of the world, or the rest of the world will rise to our standard of living. As long as we remain committed to free market economics and reject any flavor of Marxist social or economic principles, we will be fine. If the rest of the world becomes more free market, they will rise to our level. If we do abandon free markets, than we will fall to the standard of living of the socialist economies around the world. The issue is just that simple
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Stan Shannon wrote:
I can't any more than you can prove it didn't, but you can look at this..[
Even on Friedman's (biased) view, the US was clearly in a depression well before Roosevelt was elected and, with one blip, the economy grew steadily once he was elected. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gdp20-40.jpg[^] and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Employment_Graph_-_1920_to_1940.svg[^]
John Carson
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Stan Shannon wrote:
I can't any more than you can prove it didn't, but you can look at this..[
Even on Friedman's (biased) view, the US was clearly in a depression well before Roosevelt was elected and, with one blip, the economy grew steadily once he was elected. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gdp20-40.jpg[^] and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Employment_Graph_-_1920_to_1940.svg[^]
John Carson
All of which proves nothing except that there was no reason at all for a depression of any kind. The economy was prepared for a complete rebound all through the '30s and was prevented from doing so only by the purposeful policies of the federal government to prevent it. One might forgive the feds initial screw ups in the 1929-1933 time frame, but to continue those policies when they were so clearly misquided was a criminal act of incompetnece at the least, and at the worst an overt attempt to turn US society into something it was never intended to be - a european social welfare state. The ease with which the US ramped up for WWII proves more than anything the latent wealth and industrial capacity that was being actively suppressed by Roosevelt's administration for his own purposes in wrenching American society from Jefferson's grasp and handing it over to Karl Marx.
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All of which proves nothing except that there was no reason at all for a depression of any kind. The economy was prepared for a complete rebound all through the '30s and was prevented from doing so only by the purposeful policies of the federal government to prevent it. One might forgive the feds initial screw ups in the 1929-1933 time frame, but to continue those policies when they were so clearly misquided was a criminal act of incompetnece at the least, and at the worst an overt attempt to turn US society into something it was never intended to be - a european social welfare state. The ease with which the US ramped up for WWII proves more than anything the latent wealth and industrial capacity that was being actively suppressed by Roosevelt's administration for his own purposes in wrenching American society from Jefferson's grasp and handing it over to Karl Marx.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
All of which proves nothing except that there was no reason at all for a depression of any kind. The economy was prepared for a complete rebound all through the '30s and was prevented from doing so only by the purposeful policies of the federal government to prevent it. One might forgive the feds initial screw ups in the 1929-1933 time frame, but to continue those policies when they were so clearly misquided was a criminal act of incompetnece at the least, and at the worst an overt attempt to turn US society into something it was never intended to be - a european social welfare state.
Actually it proves nothing of that. What it proves is that your statement regarding Roosevelt that: "His policies turned a recession into a depression. Probably intentionally." was complete bullshit. I won't attempt to engage you further on this since you are clearly in batshit crazy mode.
John Carson
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Stan Shannon wrote:
All of which proves nothing except that there was no reason at all for a depression of any kind. The economy was prepared for a complete rebound all through the '30s and was prevented from doing so only by the purposeful policies of the federal government to prevent it. One might forgive the feds initial screw ups in the 1929-1933 time frame, but to continue those policies when they were so clearly misquided was a criminal act of incompetnece at the least, and at the worst an overt attempt to turn US society into something it was never intended to be - a european social welfare state.
Actually it proves nothing of that. What it proves is that your statement regarding Roosevelt that: "His policies turned a recession into a depression. Probably intentionally." was complete bullshit. I won't attempt to engage you further on this since you are clearly in batshit crazy mode.
John Carson
John Carson wrote:
His policies turned a recession into a depression. Probably intentionally."
So, you're saying that there wasn't a depression?
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John Carson wrote:
His policies turned a recession into a depression. Probably intentionally."
So, you're saying that there wasn't a depression?
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Stan Shannon wrote:
So, you're saying that there wasn't a depression?
You write remarkably well for someone who is apparently unable to read (hint: get someone to read you my first post).
John Carson
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I can't any more than you can prove it didn't, but you can look at this..[^]
fat_boy wrote:
Of course, as we know the US has two real problems:
There is no possible way for the US to retain its 20th century economic hegemony into the future short of a military conquest of the rest of the world. It is absolutely inevitable, regardless of any economic policy the US takes, that we will either be dragged down to the standard of living of the rest of the world, or the rest of the world will rise to our standard of living. As long as we remain committed to free market economics and reject any flavor of Marxist social or economic principles, we will be fine. If the rest of the world becomes more free market, they will rise to our level. If we do abandon free markets, than we will fall to the standard of living of the socialist economies around the world. The issue is just that simple
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Stan Shannon wrote:
There is no possible way for the US to retain its 20th century economic hegemony into the future short of a military conquest of the rest of the world.
I was going to add, the other solution to the US's problems is to keep on bommbing the dissenters.
Stan Shannon wrote:
we will either be dragged down to the standard of living of the rest of the world,
Stan, Europe has a standard of living the equal, and in many respects, exceeding that of the US!
Stan Shannon wrote:
they will rise to our level
Bull. We are at, and beyond that level already. America thinks it started the free market and democracy. Europe has been doing just that centuries BEFOREZ the US existed. In fact if ti wasnt for Europe, the US wouldnt have a free market and be a democracy! I am talking about the Dutch influence particularly here as well as English. You really need to get your head out of your butt hole Stan. Come to Europe, just see how backwards we are!
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Stan Shannon wrote:
I can't any more than you can prove it didn't, but you can look at this..[
Even on Friedman's (biased) view, the US was clearly in a depression well before Roosevelt was elected and, with one blip, the economy grew steadily once he was elected. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gdp20-40.jpg[^] and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Employment_Graph_-_1920_to_1940.svg[^]
John Carson
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Stan Shannon wrote:
There is no possible way for the US to retain its 20th century economic hegemony into the future short of a military conquest of the rest of the world.
I was going to add, the other solution to the US's problems is to keep on bommbing the dissenters.
Stan Shannon wrote:
we will either be dragged down to the standard of living of the rest of the world,
Stan, Europe has a standard of living the equal, and in many respects, exceeding that of the US!
Stan Shannon wrote:
they will rise to our level
Bull. We are at, and beyond that level already. America thinks it started the free market and democracy. Europe has been doing just that centuries BEFOREZ the US existed. In fact if ti wasnt for Europe, the US wouldnt have a free market and be a democracy! I am talking about the Dutch influence particularly here as well as English. You really need to get your head out of your butt hole Stan. Come to Europe, just see how backwards we are!
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fat_boy wrote:
Come to Europe, just see how backwards we are!
I was referring more to 'the world' than to Europe per se. But fine, if Europe is better off than the US, great. We can stop worrying about you now. Good work.
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Trollslayer wrote:
They could put it into some kind of job creation
Unfettered free markets are the most efficient means of creating jobs. Leaving my money with me will create more real jobs than will any amount of money given to a government bureaucrat.
Trollslayer wrote:
You consider homophobia a deviance then?
Sorry,but that went right over my head. As a proud homophobe myself who has come out of the closet, I believe I was born that way. Get used to it.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Unfettered free markets are the most efficient means of creating jobs. Leaving my money with me will create more real jobs than will any amount of money given to a government bureaucrat.
That is bull Stan. If there were no govt there would be no govt mental policy. No man on the moon, no atellites, no roads, no trains, no planes. If we all existed as standalone folks in our little empires then that is exactly what we would have.
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fat_boy wrote:
Come to Europe, just see how backwards we are!
I was referring more to 'the world' than to Europe per se. But fine, if Europe is better off than the US, great. We can stop worrying about you now. Good work.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
So, you're saying that there wasn't a depression?
You write remarkably well for someone who is apparently unable to read (hint: get someone to read you my first post).
John Carson
John, you cannot possible absolve FDR for being in charge during the entirity of the great depression except for the first few years of it. The figures you posted are meaningless unless you are trying to imply that Roosevelt's policies ended the depression. They didn't. Were there jobs? Yes, there were government jobs. Was there some improvement in the GDP, yes there was some small improvment in GDP. So what? The robust economy of the 20's returned in the 40s after the era of big government interventionism had passed. Truman, if nothing else, was wise enough to let the post war economy bubble along on its own with very little effort to change it. True, there was a continuing attempt to inject Marxism into the society via policies such as the GI Bill, but it would not be until Johnson's great society again began the wholesale assault on free markets that our economy would begin to suffer once more. Now that such "social reforms" have given the Amercan socialist party (ie Democrats) a reliable voting block and they no longer need to pander to any traditional American political concerns, we are faced every election with shouting down a continuing socialistic threat to our society. Every election becomes ever more critical to those of us who refuse to abandon our Jeffersonian traditions.
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Better or the same at least. The US isnt so great you know. In many respects it looks pretty backwards to us. Design, fashion, dress sense for one.
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fat_boy wrote:
In many respects it looks pretty backwards to us. Design, fashion, dress sense for one.
Yeah, we spend a lot of time worrying about that... :rolleyes:
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Better or the same at least. The US isnt so great you know. In many respects it looks pretty backwards to us. Design, fashion, dress sense for one.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
BTW, I work with a few people who have spent considerable time living in Europe (mainly Indians) and they routinely assure me how much they prefer living in the US to living in Europe both for social and economic reasons. I can't validate that personnally, still...
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Unfettered free markets are the most efficient means of creating jobs. Leaving my money with me will create more real jobs than will any amount of money given to a government bureaucrat.
That is bull Stan. If there were no govt there would be no govt mental policy. No man on the moon, no atellites, no roads, no trains, no planes. If we all existed as standalone folks in our little empires then that is exactly what we would have.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
fat_boy wrote:
If there were no govt there would be no govt mental policy. No man on the moon, no atellites, no roads, no trains, no planes. If we all existed as standalone folks in our little empires then that is exactly what we would have.
NO one is advocating 'no government'. We are advocatig minimal government. Man on the moon is a perfect example of how stupid bureaucracic managment is. Obviously government is needed to ensure transportations systems, for example, comply with easily established standards. As far as atheletics are concerned, I think it could be argued that there was more atheleticism, and music, and other culture in our society before the era of big government than afterwards.
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Tis is an emotionally difficult issue, but, how did Roosavelt get the US out of recession in the 30's? By govt spending on public projects. Print the dollars and build dams and roads. Of corse the war, with its massive govt expenditure is what put the final nail in the recession of the 30's. So, is this very much diffrent? Wouldnt you rather see 14 billion pumped into the lowest level of society than see it pumped into the higher levels trough, say, arms expenditure in the Iraq war? (And backahanders to Halliburton and asorted expenditure in Iraq).
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fat_boy wrote:
Tis is an emotionally difficult issue, but, how did Roosavelt get the US out of recession in the 30's? By govt spending on public projects.
Actually, history suggests that that was not working, and it was really WWII that pulled us out. In any case, what the Senate is doing will insure we need the public works in the end, since they will cause the current downturn to become a full blown recession through a combination of delay and actions that increase the cost (and the deficit) without generating any quick stimulus. Roosevelt had massive unemployment as a symptom that had to be addressed. The US is presently at the lowest level of unemployment (4.9%) in modern history, so it is unlikely that the public works programs will even find people to put to work (perhaps more work for illegal aliens...). Harry Reid and his compatriots in the Senate are idiots, and even the Democrats in the House agree (they considered all the same things Reid & Co. are adding, and rejected most of them as either being inappropriate to the problem, too late in impact or too expensive).
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fat_boy wrote:
Tis is an emotionally difficult issue, but, how did Roosavelt get the US out of recession in the 30's? By govt spending on public projects.
Actually, history suggests that that was not working, and it was really WWII that pulled us out. In any case, what the Senate is doing will insure we need the public works in the end, since they will cause the current downturn to become a full blown recession through a combination of delay and actions that increase the cost (and the deficit) without generating any quick stimulus. Roosevelt had massive unemployment as a symptom that had to be addressed. The US is presently at the lowest level of unemployment (4.9%) in modern history, so it is unlikely that the public works programs will even find people to put to work (perhaps more work for illegal aliens...). Harry Reid and his compatriots in the Senate are idiots, and even the Democrats in the House agree (they considered all the same things Reid & Co. are adding, and rejected most of them as either being inappropriate to the problem, too late in impact or too expensive).
Rob Graham wrote:
and it was really WWII that pulled us out
No it was not. WWII simply forced the government to allow industry to ramp back up. That could have happend at any point from 1930 onwards. The capacity for it was there all along and nothing but purposefl government control was preventing it. The destruction of WWII left the US as the only major industrial power on the planet, which caused our economy to explode in the post WWII era.
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Rob Graham wrote:
and it was really WWII that pulled us out
No it was not. WWII simply forced the government to allow industry to ramp back up. That could have happend at any point from 1930 onwards. The capacity for it was there all along and nothing but purposefl government control was preventing it. The destruction of WWII left the US as the only major industrial power on the planet, which caused our economy to explode in the post WWII era.
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WWII also drastically reduced the unemployment rate ( from 14.6% in 1940 to 4.7 by 1942, and 1.2 by 1942). Roosevelt's great public works programs had failed to reduce unemployment to below 14.3% in any year between 1933 and 1941. To that extent, WWII represented at least economic recovery, although I agree that it was the post-war status that lead to the sustained economic boom that followed.
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WWII also drastically reduced the unemployment rate ( from 14.6% in 1940 to 4.7 by 1942, and 1.2 by 1942). Roosevelt's great public works programs had failed to reduce unemployment to below 14.3% in any year between 1933 and 1941. To that extent, WWII represented at least economic recovery, although I agree that it was the post-war status that lead to the sustained economic boom that followed.
The only real economic point that WWII makes, however, is that there was massive amounts of wealth waiting to be invested and massive amounts of industrial capacity ready to absorb it. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the US to turn on a dime and go from being a ten year old economic basket case, to a powerful engine of democracy spewing fleets of ships and planes and tanks and troops around the world. The saddest part is that if that had been allowed to happend years earliar, WWII might have never happened at all. In a world that turns 9/11 and global warming into sinister conspiracy theories about government, it is not at all out of line to speculate upon on how gleefully the left used a slight economic downturn to so completely disparage the social and economic underpennings of American culture and to infect American culture with an entirely different mindset than what it previously had so stubbornly clung to.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080203/ap_on_go_co/stimulus_jobless_benefits[^] Three to six months of extra unemployment checks will just be an excuse for people to set on their butts for an extra three to six months contributing no productivity to the economy while absorbing a substantial portion of the productivity of others. This is nothing but blatant, full blown, communism. My God I get so sick of this kind of marxist mentality. Let me spend my own goddamned money! Why is that such a complex fucking concept for the leftist to comprehend? If the unemployed want their share of it, let them get off their godddamned lazy asses and figure out something they can do for me that might make me want to give them some of my money in exchange. Its simple, it works, and it does not require a bunch of over paid sex deviants in Washington D.C. to manage!
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Stan Shannon wrote:
What kind of drugs are these people on?
Money?
Stan Shannon wrote:
will just be an excuse for people to set on their butts for an extra three to six months contributing no productivity to the economy while absorbing a substantial portion of the productivity of others
Is that envy, Stan? :D
Stan Shannon wrote:
let them get off their godddamned lazy asses and figure out something they can do for me that might make me want to give them some of my money in exchange
Do you want to invest in my pitchfork-sharpening and torch-oiling business? I understand your rage, but lat time I checked your economy did not suffer from "not enough lazy bums dragged to work". And if you really think that's your money, why do you use little pieces of paper guarantueed to be legal tender by a commie treasurer and his secretary?
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fat_boy wrote:
Tis is an emotionally difficult issue, but, how did Roosavelt get the US out of recession in the 30's? By govt spending on public projects.
Actually, history suggests that that was not working, and it was really WWII that pulled us out. In any case, what the Senate is doing will insure we need the public works in the end, since they will cause the current downturn to become a full blown recession through a combination of delay and actions that increase the cost (and the deficit) without generating any quick stimulus. Roosevelt had massive unemployment as a symptom that had to be addressed. The US is presently at the lowest level of unemployment (4.9%) in modern history, so it is unlikely that the public works programs will even find people to put to work (perhaps more work for illegal aliens...). Harry Reid and his compatriots in the Senate are idiots, and even the Democrats in the House agree (they considered all the same things Reid & Co. are adding, and rejected most of them as either being inappropriate to the problem, too late in impact or too expensive).
Rob Graham wrote:
and it was really WWII that pulled us out.
Isn't that "pulling out" just massive public spending going into private weapon factories? How is that economically different from: 1. give everyone money to buy a new big TV 2. Make the TV blow up after Superbowl 3. Blame it on the Germans Please explain where I go wrong:
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