3 Charts Show How Much Support Democrats Have for Socialism
What a fool believes? Do they not teach any history in schools anymore?
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From an estimated annual rate of 3.3 percent during 1923-29, the unemployment rate rose to a peak of about 25 percent in 1933. The economy reached its trough in 1933; but although unemployment had reached its peak, economic recovery was slow, hesitant, and far from complete. As shown below, the unemployment rate was still nearly 15 percent in 1940.
Unemployment rate
1923-29 3.3
1930 8.9
1931 15.9
1932 23.6
1933 24.9
1934 21.7
1935 20.1
1936 17.0
1937 14.3
1938 19.0
1939 17.2
1940 14.6
1941 9.9
1942 4.7
http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/print/cm2...
Bernie thinks we have been dumbed down enough to accept this crap quietly.
Critical Thinking in the US is DEAD.
Hopefully not completely here in the Gulch.
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Looking at the figures you can say the only thing that pulled the US out of the muck and mire was World War II where unemployment shrunk to almost nothing.
The small amount ended up as the automatic 5% lop off the work force after WWII. Add in a few other items such as the drought years and losing millions of tons of topsoil to really bad farming practices
Immigration statistics support the contention the government programs failed see 1931 to 1940 then were held up by WWII
Highest immigration so far last decade of 20th century nine million first decade of 21st century 14 million. Mexico has been second behind Germany and ahead of United Kingdom. Europe ahead of the other continents and subcontinents excepting North America which became other parts of the world depending on the wars Asia primarly took it's turn Now Eastern Europe has had a large helpiong of slots. Overall to 1800 to 2010 Mexico Number Two.consistently. Europe in the late 1800s was high numbers due to the long periods of cold and lack of food production. Scandanavia and places like Ukraine contributed to USA and Canada in those periods.
But for the depression years it all quit. The only entity to blame was the government and government policies based on a switch to socialism and keynesian economics. The savior as they fast learned was war. Remains so to this day. Only question is when and where. Middle East or some new place for the next generations war stories.
1901 - 1910 8,795,386 immigrants arrive in the US
1911 - 1920 5,735,811 immigrants arrive in the US
1921 - 1930 4,107,209 immigrants arrive in the US
1931 - 1940 532,431 immigrants arrive in the US (Great Depression)
1941 - 1950 1,035,039 immigrants arrive in the US
Summary. The main culprit through out has been bad government policies and programs.But recall government and business has been for many decades two thirds of the control. Statist, corporatist, and union leaders.
Read 'Atlas Shrugged', '1984', and 'Brave New World' as well as much of Heinlein's writings, pay a little attention and give a little study to what you're being told by those authors and guess what; you see the definition of the world we find ourselves in during this election season.
It's collectivism and statism vs individual freedom and rights. If you don't get and live the principles of liberty, you wind up with what we have today. And from what I read on this site on a daily basis the last several months, there's just not many Americans that care very much about freedom and liberty.
are experiencing mass delusion. . how sad. -- j
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i'm here like Mighty Mouse
to save your day
You took the oath
it's true it's true
but not to country nor people too
The oath was to a paper scrap
With a few word written in foolscap
To Constitution that's all you mention
Freely given, no purpose of evasions
Protect, preserve from all who invade
Or let it's colors shred and fade
Enemies foreign or home grown
No matter where or when they're borne
And not one name ever past your lips
Much less names of these hypocrites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIev...
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Don't ask them for historical evidence, though.. just ask them if they're right!
D'oh!
"Any man who is not a communist in his twenties is a fool, and any man who is not a Capitalist in his thirties is an even bigger fool."
Democrats might favor socialism, but it's because they don't actually understand it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lee+kuan+ye...
Jan
that I had a heart. . my folks were wondering, however. -- j
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the heart is an organ that aerates and pumps blood through out the body. It is, however, the symbol for emotion. The only organ that controls reason and emotion is the brain. As Woody Allan put it, "My brain is my second favorite organ."
progressive of the first order. -- j
p.s. my favorite organ is my rectum -- remember
the old joke?
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doing silly weiner jokes. . I just have no respect for him. -- j
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https://reason.com/assets/db/14080250...
Another reason to promote "free markets" rather than "capitalism" when discussing economics with non-Objectivists.
Jan
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I do believe wealth in the world should be more evenly distributed, but I don't think it should happen by stealing. I esp don't like the 99% rhetoric. If half the population wants to help the poor, not because someone is shaming them or using force but really wants to, I think that's a good thing. If 99% of the population is looking for a handout in some form or another, society collapses-- not because of ideology but because of math.
Isn't that freaking obvious?
It's the woman's turn.
It's the woman's turn.
It's the woman's turn.
Not sure about fair (not too concerned), but we should have a more level playing field.
Who are you or I to tell people who they can and can't do business with?
Perhaps one business per business man, sound familiar? Maybe having an approved list of which businesses another business can go business with? Atlas Shrugged, no? Slippery slope.
Yes, the Fifth Amendment. In particular:
"No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."
"Private property shall not be taken for public use, without just compensation."
And maybe we could use a reform to delineate just what a "public use" is. I would restrict that to "forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_c...
"Crony capitalism is a term describing an economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials. It may be exhibited by favoritism in the distribution of legal permits, government grants, special tax breaks, or other forms of state interventionism.[1][2] Crony capitalism is believed to arise when business cronyism and related self-serving behavior by businesses or businesspeople spills over into politics and government,[3] or when self-serving friendships and family ties between businessmen and the government influence the economy and society to the extent that it corrupts public-serving economic and political ideals."
That assumes that an external forcing factor (i.e., government) should be used or involved, and we've seen a lot of evidence of what happens after that.
But hey, rainbows and unicorns and Bernie and Hillary... Anything Is Possible, right?
Right?
Reality-Distortion Fields everywhere...
We here are the ones that should be the best prepared and best situated to "pull a John Galt" when we decide our time is here. We see and understand everything that is happening, and where this will end up.
I'm working my plan...who else is willing and able to say that? Who else wants (or NEEDS) to be able to say that? Who else refuses to go over the cliff with the masses?