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SniFFleS
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| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
I do not believe the depression was prolonged by government spending. It's the opposite. that's why it lasted so long.
for this reason, there are no other serious recessions in US history to be able to conclude that doing nothing is the better option. No president has been willing to take that chance, to do nothing and hope that's the right move. |
1. If the government did nothing in 2002 there would not be this huge problem right now.
2. Roosevelt came into power and said he was going to do nothing but interfered in the market and prolonged it. Look up all the programs he started.
3. Why are there recessions? The Fed creates all these bubbles and we look to them to get use out.
If there wasn't such interference in the market we would not see such huge fluctuations in economic and market cycles.
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Jan-15-2009 02:25
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| quote: | Originally posted by spolitta
3. It's a myth that if Hoover & Roosevelt didn't spend so much money the depression would have been a lot longer say maybe 20 years? The depression was created because of what Hoover & Roosevelt did, otherwise it would have been a normal recession which could have taken up to 2-3 years. You are not hallucinating nor am I, I know what we were told in the school about this subject, but like I just said if we led the free market function there wouldn't have been a depression in the first place. Go figure |
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| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
It'll be a great Hollywood story for America's democracy that Obama won but in the end he'll be a politician with his hands tied up by various corporations and other powerful individuals. Anyone that truly thinks Obama will save the world is delusional. |
I like how you've already set it up in your mind such that he can't possibly fail of his own volition. If he doesn't live up to the hype, it'll be the fault of the corporations and power brokers, and would obviously have nothing to do with him making promises he can't possibly keep, for example, or having near-zero experience with economic and social policy, or just making poor choices in office.
That is the difference between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. - they are both biased and partisan, but when a Republican president fucks up, Republicans vote him out, whereas when a Democrat fucks up, Democrats pooh-pooh it or find a scapegoat.
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Jan-15-2009 15:21
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SniFFleS
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| quote: | Originally posted by darcnight
the REASON the credit crisis and everything else is happening is because of a LACK OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
That's exactly why the Canadian banks and housing arent imploding the way the US is. because we stayed regulated...even when our banks were whining about how over regulated we are...its what saved us.
Regulation controls greed.
One of the proposed fixes for all that's going wrong stateside is MORE REGULATION. |
Yes regulation could have stopped the credit crisis, but there would have been no sub prime mortgage problem in the first place if it wasn't for Greenspan having the rates low for so long and then raising them.
More regulation could have prevented it but regulation was not what caused it.
You could say more regulation for anything in that case. "If there was more regulation going into The Guvernment less people would do drugs"
Who would you blame? The drug dealers who sold drugs to people before? or The Guvernment security?
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Jan-15-2009 15:21
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SniFFleS
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| quote: | Originally posted by darcnight
quite the opposite. the depression lasted long because the government did NOTHING. stopped spending when it should have,etc,etc...
where do you guys come up with this stuff?
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The new deal came out in 1932 , the great depression lasted until 1939 and ended because of Hitler. The new deal pretty much just got the government involved in everything.
Roosevelt also increased tariffs, which is a horrible move. He pretty much tried to keep prices high when the depression was trying to bring prices back down to reasonable levels, he kept interfering and invoked price controls. That's why it lasted so long, the recession was the cure for the overinflated market/economy of before the crash.
It's actually similar to what we see now, if Obama wants to keep prices high and stop home prices from falling then this recession is going to last a long time.
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