Comments on: It’s FDR’s Fault http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/11/its-fdrs-fault Wed, 09 May 2012 10:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: PirateRo http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/11/its-fdrs-fault/comment-page-1#comment-47047 PirateRo Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:33:35 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=6620#comment-47047 I saw this piece of crap in the news the other day. I look at it like this - he's teaching in Tennessee for a reason. I saw this piece of crap in the news the other day. I look at it like this – he’s teaching in Tennessee for a reason.

]]> By: tas http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/11/its-fdrs-fault/comment-page-1#comment-47046 tas Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:33:06 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=6620#comment-47046 These people are so fucktarded. It was the laissez-faire conservative bulshit about how government shouldn't regulation businesses -- which they all still support, thanks to Friedman -- that helped bring America into the Great Depression. FDR setup a social safety net which is an insurance plan to make sure recessions don't become depressions, and it's that safety net which these fucktards have hacked away at ever since. Of course, as any shit-chucking monkey could have told them (for the nominal fee of one banana -- it is a capitalist system, after all), this has us staring down another depression. During the Great Depression, America had whole towns without dollars. Can you imagine an entire town not having a $20 bill? You could if the government provided no welfare or unemployment benefits to keep citizens afloat and buying basic necessities. Giving people a little money at least keeps the economy going, even at a slow pace.. But when there's no money, industry stops. It's tough to get industry going again after it simply stops. I thought we learned these lessons, but no. The Reynold's, Will's, and Norquist's of the world still maintain that government is evil, so the smaller it is the better. You think they would have learned to separate sexy ideology from political reality, which requires a little critical thought to their surroundings. But that's just asking too much, I guess. These people are so fucktarded. It was the laissez-faire conservative bulshit about how government shouldn’t regulation businesses — which they all still support, thanks to Friedman — that helped bring America into the Great Depression. FDR setup a social safety net which is an insurance plan to make sure recessions don’t become depressions, and it’s that safety net which these fucktards have hacked away at ever since. Of course, as any shit-chucking monkey could have told them (for the nominal fee of one banana — it is a capitalist system, after all), this has us staring down another depression.

During the Great Depression, America had whole towns without dollars. Can you imagine an entire town not having a $20 bill? You could if the government provided no welfare or unemployment benefits to keep citizens afloat and buying basic necessities. Giving people a little money at least keeps the economy going, even at a slow pace.. But when there’s no money, industry stops. It’s tough to get industry going again after it simply stops.

I thought we learned these lessons, but no. The Reynold’s, Will’s, and Norquist’s of the world still maintain that government is evil, so the smaller it is the better.

You think they would have learned to separate sexy ideology from political reality, which requires a little critical thought to their surroundings. But that’s just asking too much, I guess.

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