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11-30-2006, 05:49 PM
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\"WWII ended the Depression...\"
...according to my American Business History teacher. He also said it pained him to have to admit it was the war and not FDR's New Deal. I can see how this is so widespread if everyone from college professors down to elementary teachers are teaching it that way. Still saddens me a bit that this broken-window fallacy of sorts is peddled in a university.
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11-30-2006, 05:55 PM
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Re: \"WWII ended the Depression...\"
I wasn't aware that this is in doubt.
Military production quickly provided full employment. Depression happen. War come. Depression end.
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11-30-2006, 06:05 PM
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Re: \"WWII ended the Depression...\"
Come on now. If you going to question a popularly held belief I think it should be required that you back it up with some type of reference or explanation.
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11-30-2006, 06:07 PM
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Re: \"WWII ended the Depression...\"
While WWII marked the end of the depression, I dont think you cant totally discount the New Deal's role in enabling the country to ramp up as quickly as it did for WWII, and for keeping things from going even further south than they did. Just Roosevelts commitment to get people working, instead of on the soup lines and the dole was instrumental in being prepared for recovery.
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11-30-2006, 06:12 PM
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Re: \"WWII ended the Depression...\"
Let's start with a question.
Every time we have a recession, why don't we have the government build a bunch of munitions and then dump them into the ocean?
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11-30-2006, 06:17 PM
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Re: \"WWII ended the Depression...\"
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Let's start with a question. Every time we have a recession, why don't we have the government build a bunch of munitions and then dump them into the ocean? [/ QUOTE ] Are you implying that the joy of death and destruction doesnt contribute to economic recovery? Wow, what a concept.
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#8
11-30-2006, 06:24 PM
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Re: \"WWII ended the Depression...\"
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[ QUOTE ] Let's start with a question. Every time we have a recession, why don't we have the government build a bunch of munitions and then dump them into the ocean? [/ QUOTE ] Are you implying that the joy of death and destruction doesnt contribute to economic recovery? Wow, what a concept. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, it's really something is it? Surprisingly also death and destruction themselves don't contribute to economic recovery. So seeing as you agree with me how can you think WWII benefited the economy? Other than a basic confusion of correlation with causation?
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11-30-2006, 06:28 PM
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Re: \"WWII ended the Depression...\"
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That's why the economy is so strong now. Bush is a good president. [/ QUOTE ] BUSH IN '08 - GETTING US OUT OF RECESSIONS, ONE BUNKER-BUSTER AT A TIME
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