Bush secretly only desires Obama to fail.

On balance, George W. Bush hates black people (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/andrew-yu-jen-wang-responds-to-stokely.html George W. Bush “doesn’t care about black people”).

“George Bush Used Hand Sanitizer Immediately After Shaking Barack Obama’s Hand: Is Bush Germophobic or Racist?” (Posted by Peter Griffin. (2008, November 11). George Bush Used Hand Sanitizer Immediately After Shaking Barack Obama’s Hand: Is Bush Germophobic or Racist? SodaHead. Retrieved November 11, 2008, from http://www.sodahead.com/question/188322/george-bush-used-hand-sanitizer-immediately-after-shaking-barack-obamas-hand-is-bush-germophobic-or-racist/?link=samf).

George W. Bush is racist.

The raging racist—George W. Bush—must be irate over a black person having become the president of the United States.

Barack Obama wins!

Go Barack Obama!

Barack Obama may defy George W. Bush’s hatred of black people!

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

Shouldn’t the ‘free market’ have self-corrected? Nah, all it took was a World War.

I love it that ‘free market’ advocates forget what a corporate nanny state the US actually is.

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backup i see your point,

would that you gave as much care and

attention to your own writing, eh?

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keep up the good work.

and btw, don’t forget a little something

we like to call…

THE CHALLENGE:

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backup,

we were hoping you had taken your cherry picked quotes,

your phony socratic questions and your general silliness

and gone galt on us.

too much to hope for, i guess.

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if what you have to offer has any value at all you would be missed.

if not no one would notice or care about your absence

and you’d be recognized for what you really are; a dilettante.

(my money is on the latter.)

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a challenge. do you have the courage to test your

ideas and opinions on the open market place? or would rather keep

foisting them on people willy nilly?

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good luck, my friend.

:)

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your argument is stronger.

and so is your spelling.

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go galt backup,

go galt.

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good luck, my friend.

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I’m not trying to frustrate you but, I still believe it’s possible that the history of the period is told thru biased eyes. Capitalists have the strong motivation to explain that the War ended the Depression. Progressives, that it was the government intervention.

No matter. You’re links are good. And the question that comes to mind is, that even if WWII ended the Depression (the capitalist view) wasn’t that a big government intervention with massive debt spending?

You’re argument is stronger.

we were hoping you had taken your cherry picked quotes,

your phony socratic questions and your general silliness

and gone galt on us.

too much to hope for, i guess.

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if what you have to offer has any value at all you would be missed.

if not no one would notice or care about your absence

and you’d be recognized for what you really are; a dilettante.

(my money is on the latter.)

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a challenge. do you have the courage to test your

ideas and opinions on the open market place? or would rather keep

foisting them on people willy nilly?

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good luck, my friend.

:)

The Recession of 1937, sometimes called the Roosevelt Recession, was a temporary reversal of the pre-war 1933 to 1941 economic recovery, which occurred in 1937-38. It was part of the Great Depression in the United States, and had serious political results, and helped strengthen the new Conservative Coalition led by Senators Robert A. Taft and Richard B. Russell. Economic historians have not agreed on the causes [1], but many of the causes show that because the New Deal involved spending money from the Federal budget, President Roosevelt had to end New Deal spending, and thus programs, as a result. In addition to lowering spending, Roosevelt raised taxes in order to balance the budget.

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By 1936, all the main economic indicators had regained the levels of the late 1920s, except for unemployment, which remained high, although it was considerably lower than the 25% unemployment rate seen in 1933. In 1937, the American economy took an unexpected downturn, lasting through most of 1938. Production declined sharply, as did profits and employment. Unemployment jumped from 14.3% in 1937 to 19.0% in 1938. In two months, unemployment rose from 5 million to over 9 million, reaching almost 12 million in early 1938. Manufacturing output fell off by 40% from the 1937 peak; it was back to 1934 levels. Producers reduced their expenditures on durable goods, and inventories declined, but personal income was only 15% lower than it had been at the peak in 1937. In most sectors hourly earnings continued to rise throughout the recession, which partly compensated for the reduction in the number of hours worked. As unemployment rose, consumers’ expenditures declined, leading to further cutbacks in production.

backup Says:
shoeless. I acknowledged your graph. But, it’s not a debate ender.

There seems to be plenty of experts here. What possessed FDR’s Treasury Secretary to say this:

As FDR’s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, put it in congressional testimony in May 1939, “We are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. … [A]fter eight years … we have just as much unemployment as when we started … and an enormous debt to boot.”

What possessed Morgenthau to say such a thing? perhaps because he was one of Roosevelt’s advisors who ad pressed him in 1937 to cut back spending and try to balance the budget, measures that reversed the previous few years of growth and led to the Recession of 1937.

You’re fond of wikipedia, so here’s a couple of select quotes for ya:

The Roosevelt Administration was under assault during FDR’s second term, which presided over a new dip in the Great Depression in the fall of 1937 that continued through most of 1938. Production declined sharply, as did profits and employment. Unemployment jumped from 14.3% in 1937 to 19.0% in 1938. Keynesian economists speculated that this was a result of a premature effort to curb government spending and balance the budget

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Roosevelt rejected the advice of Morgenthau to cut spending and decided big business were trying to ruin the New Deal by causing another depression that voters would react against by voting Republican.

A 1995 survey of economic historians asked whether “Taken as a whole, government policies of the New Deal served to lengthen and deepen the Great Depression.” Of those in economics departments 27% agreed, 22% agreed ‘with provisos’ (what provisos the survey does not state) and 51% disagreed. Of those in history departments, only 27% agreed and 73% disagreed.

There seems to be plenty of experts here. What possessed FDR’s Treasury Secretary to say this:

As FDR’s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, put it in congressional testimony in May 1939, “We are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. … [A]fter eight years … we have just as much unemployment as when we started … and an enormous debt to boot.”

That doesn’t sound like the sentiment of an administration that is confident that government intervention has worked.

Your chiropractor called to confirm your appointment for next Tuesday to work on that whiplash.

No x-ray necessary, he’ll just hold you up to the light so he can see the kinks.

wow.

i must say, on first instinct, thank you.

hope it sticks…

Outside of Fox News there has never been a question about the New Deal working…

Complete Historical Ignorance is the one thing that can surely undo America, and Fox is the one sure way to achieve it.

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Yeah, I’m a little fuzzy on that whole ‘New Deal’ thing myself. I mean, ending the Great Depression was all well and good, but who can say if it really worked?

It seems we have to keep re-educating backchump on the Great Depression every couple of days. I showed him that the GNP doubled between 1933 and 1937, which is probably record growth for a 4 year period, but he has already forgotten that fact.

on this one backup.

you can go away forever.

you will not be missed.

goodbye.

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You guys are right. I’m trying to do too many things today. I can’t give you the attention that you deserve.

We don’t want your attention, nor do we deserve it.

I think that those efforts at intervention were ongoing in the late 20’s and continued throughout the 30’s. The question is, did they work?

Yeah, I’m a little fuzzy on that whole ‘New Deal’ thing myself. I mean, ending the Great Depression was all well and good, but who can say if it really worked?