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Are you really so sure of that? I'm old enough to have known a lot of people who lived through the Depression _because_ of FDR's programs. Whether the New Deal
by ncphil 5y ago
Are you really so sure of that?
I'm old enough to have known a lot of people who lived through the Depression _because_ of FDR's programs. Whether the New Deal alone could have saved the country is literally academic to the tens of millions who were saved by jobs in the CWA, WPA and CCC, or the relief provided by the FSA, SSA and economic aid to businesses under the NIRA. It seems unusually cold hearted for any historian or economist to ignore the tremendous suffering those measures spared so many, just because they didn't meet some theoretical threshold for full recovery.
- TheBlight 5y agoYes, I'm sure.
- timbit42 5y agoSince you provided no proof, you can be ignored.
- TheBlight 5y agoI don't have time to teach remedial U.S. history. You can find charts that clearly indicate the phenomenon here (for ones which show pre-WW2 data): https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ Probably the best chart: https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/img_0658-1.jpg https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/im...