Originally posted by Bardock42Although, he did save America's economy, and it never crashed again.
Yeah, also the one directly responsible for a huge amount of the shit your country is in now.The way Trans explains it he is the exact oppositeof me. A Christian authoritarian socialist. Pretty sad.
Still, I'm not that fond of him either.
Originally posted by Bardock42My opinion is that his transformation of a welfare state, lifted the US from the depression it was in. You know, like fixing a tennis players racket so he can play tennis again.
What is it in your opinion? You said the New Deal took time to work, so that can't be it, what do you think it is?
Originally posted by lord xyz
But the war ended in 45.
indeed.
so between 1939 and 1945, american corporations, and thus the american economy, got to supply the allies pretty much with all of their equipment
there are reasons FDR talked about the military industrial complex even back then. The economic benefits from WW2 created the capital to get the country out of the depression.
Hitler did a similar thing. By intensifying the military industry, he was able to employ many people and stabilize the German economy, picking them up out of the depression years before anyone else, even though they were potentially worse off than other nations (treaty of Versailles and what not).
Originally posted by lord xyz
So what, everyone works in the army, do they?
I know it is a double post, but I wanted to elaborate a bit on this point
During the modern "most important war ever" ie, the war on terror, there has been no requirement of citizens to change their daily life. In fact, the government wants things to remain the same to discourage any anti-war blow back. If people had to sacrifice their SUVs and gallon of petroleum that they like to pour on their breakfast cereal, they might not be so fervent to "smoke out" them "mohamedens" and "Bin Laden" (its hard to put a southern accent into writing sometimes).
However, during WW2, things were much different. Local industry almost completely shifted from civilian to military operations. Clothing, food, basic machinery, etc, was crafted almost universally for the war effort.
The jobs might not have been specifically "army" jobs, but in a time of real war, a nation must make these types of sacrifices, and in WW2, it was a necessity of the american economy to be pretty much 100% producing items for the war.