Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "I Welcome Their Dislike | Bernie Sanders" video.

  1. I like the FDR references. Under FDR a recession turned into a depression. Saying FDR was a good president is like saying Matt Millen was a good GM for the Detroit Lions. I find it sad that people want another depression.
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  2. +Kyrie Irving Yep, FDR was so good that he turned a recession into a depression.
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  3. +Kyrie Irving When did the depression take place?
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  4. +Kyrie Irving Every other recession took around 5 years or less to recover from with little to no federal government action. You never hear of the Panic of 1873 or 1837 because they were not as big as the great depression. Or what about the recession of 1920 to 1921? That was just as big as the one in 1929, but due to the federal government not doing anything the economy recovered quickly. FDR took the federal government and tried to "fix" the economy which led to a depression. I said this before, people who felt that FDR was a good president and good for the economy most likely feel that Matt Millen was a good GM for the Detroit Lions.
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  5. +Kyrie Irving In 11th grade did you learn about the Panic of 1873 or the Panic of 1837, or the recession of 1920, or other recessions? Most likely not. The reason why is because they were small, recovery was quick. Under FDR recovery was slow for a reason. It was also the first time, and only time until 2007 that the federal government tried to "fix" the economy with massive spending and regulations. FDR was killing off cattle and crops to keep supply slow trying to stimulate the economy. When people needed cheap food he was destroying it. There were other recessions similar to 1929, the one in 1920 was just as bad, but recovery was quick. FDR's regulations did not prevent future recessions, they still happened. FDR's policies he passed just compounded our problems and the problems we are seeing now are linked to them. They were not a big until now because 1. After the war every other country was rebuilding where we weren't, thus we had a head start on the global economy, which is why the depression ended then 2. It takes a couple generations until too many people become dependent on the federal government to really become a problem FDR was not a good president. His policies led to a slow recovery, and his policies are causing more problems. The Founding Fathers wanted a federal government with limited powers because they saw a time where future politicians will take advantage of it. FDR went against that and future politicians took advantage of it. FDR's policies have been destructive, not beneficial.
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  6. +Kyrie Irving I think the fact that we saw the slowest recovery ever is large enough. And saying correlation does not equal causation can easily be turned around you. You said FDR's policies prevented future depressions......well correlation does not equal causation. The great depression was unique in that it was the first time the federal government tried to "fix" the economy through massive spending and regulations. People wanted Wilson to do something during the 1920 recession and he did nothing. We recovered quickly. WW2 gave the government a reason to spend and invest. It has always been constitutional for the government to spend on foreign affairs thus it has always been a part of the economy. It also distracted FDR from domestic policies so that the federal government was not having a large role in it. The war forced investment instead of waste. If the waste was never there to begin with we would have never had a depression. "Another piece of evidence was that FDR reduced government subsidies to farms and the WPA, unemployment went from 15% to 20% in an instance." Correlation does not equal causation........actually I can give an explanation for that as well. FDR's spending was the first time the federal government tried to "fix" the economy. That lower unemployment was artificial. That is why there was a spike in unemployment after he pulled out. Today what we have seen is that people are wiser and understand history. That is why after the stimulus for the 2007 recession we did not see any recovery.
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  7. +Kyrie Irving It was a good source of information, I will give it that. What that video shows is the expansion of the federal government under FDR which I feel is the worst thing to happen under FDR. It made people dependent on the federal government. Milton Friedman said that we should follow the Founding Fathers' model in a limited government and keeping government as local as possible to ensure that government remains the servants instead of the masters. Instead, under FDR we went the exact opposite. As the guy said in the video we now expect the federal government to do things. That is a very scary thought to have that we have become so dependent on the federal government. As far as the New Deal ending the depression, I still feel it didn't. He mentioned subsidizes and when he stopped them unemployment went up. The reason why is because the first "recovery" from the initial subsidizes was artificial. That is why it crashed so quickly. I agree the war ended the depression. The war ended up being an investment for the US government, who always spent on foreign relations as listed in the constitution. It also distracted FDR so he no longer did destructive domestic policies. Spending on arms creation that other countries bought is an actual investment as opposed to paintings that no one cares about. In the end the worst thing to happen under FDR was our dependence on the federal government. People complain about government corruption and I say that the best way to end it is to limit the federal government. Talks of that means no more Social Security, no more Medicare/Medicaid, no more Department of Education and so on. People get scared at that point and don't want to limit the government. It is like the child that does not want to listen to their parents, so then their parents say "fine, go get a job and live in your own place and make your own rules". At least that is what my parents said to me as a kid. It quickly got me to follow their rules because they provided a roof over my head, or "welfare".
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  8. +MrJc9600 So you will take a depression every single time?
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  9. +MrJc9600 So things that caused the depression
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  10. +Matthew Kitson I already passed US history and I learned more outside of it.
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  11. +MarxNightmare The recession started prior to FDR. FDR's policies turned it into a depression. In 1920 we saw a similar crash and with no federal government action we saw a recovery. FDR tried to "fix" the economy, the first time ever the federal government tried to fix the economy and guess what.....a depression happened.
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  12. +MarxNightmare FDR put forth a "stimulus" that created an artificial recovery. We saw growth and unemployment drop. This was the first time the federal government tried to "fix" the economy so the subsidizes FDR was pumping in the economy gave an artificial recovery. The second they stopped it the economy crashed again causing the depression. if left alone we would have recovered for good within a year. Instead FDR created an artificial recovery that led to the depression. In 2007 we had a recession and the federal government tried the same thing in stimulating the economy. This time it did not lead to growth. The reason why is because investors and businesses know that the stimulus is artificial thus it lead to no growth because once the federal government stopped another crash would have happened. But in 1933 and 2007 the federal government trying to "fix" the economy led to a slow recovery.
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  13. +MarxNightmare Look at the history of recessions in the US. Every other recession in the US took around 5 years or less to recover from with little to no federal government action. The recession of 1929 would have been recovered from in 1934 or 1935 if left alone. Instead FDR tried to "fix" the recession and what happened was that it turned into a depression. That is why FDR turned a recession into a depression. The federal government did little to nothing during the Panic of 1873 and the Panic of 1837 and in around 5 years we recovered from that. But FDR, for the first time tried to "fix" the recession with spending and regulation and it is of no surprise that it turned into a depression. I am basing my argument off of fact and previous recessions.
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