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Originally Posted by Lord T Hawkeye
Pop quiz to OhZone or anyone else who thinks the New Deal actually helped alleviate the Depression!
If New Deal actually did help with the Depression, why did it last 10 years and yet the two other recessions that occured in the same century where the government did NOT intervene only lasted one year each?
When answering, keep this in mind: Economies always go through highs and lows. Recessions are inevitable but they always will eventually end. So FDR does not automatically get to take credit just because it ended while he was in office.
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Guess what. All recessions are different. They aren't uniform.
It strikes me as a incredibly arrogant to assume that the one, single variable of a great many variables that contributed to the Great Depression over other recessions is the one that supports your view point. I can't even begin to consider an argument that's so blatantly lop-sided.
In the same vein that just because FDR got involved doesn't credit him with ending the depression, it must be equally true that just because FDR got involved doesn't gain him blame for the severity of the Great Depression. You want to make the claim of causation, you have to show more than correlation.
I have no problem with you disagreeing with popular modern interpretations of the 20th century, but at least have the decency to pull your head out of the echo chamber that is Ron Paul's ass and make a valid argument.
And before you think I'm some FDR fanboy, I will add that I have no qualms equating FDR to a dictator for his many liberties taken with Constitutional law in doing what he thought was right. It's kinda sickening to think about it.