Nickolai wrote:
Oh but he did lift millions of us out by 1932-- 28 million people in the US had no visible means of support.
there were more hoboes riding the rails than there were paying passengers in the cars above. Teen age girls were risking diasease pregnancy and even death turnning tricks in the hobo jungles for a dime a trick. A lot of people along the eastern sea board were living on bolied danddelions. 5000 banks had gone belly up Economic growth was minus 12.9 %. after FDR took office he pushed through 15 major pieces of legislation in the first 100 days of his administrsation and in 1933 economic growth was only minus 1.2 % and in 1934 it rose to plus 10.9 % as the government hired 15 million men which included my future father in law and a bunch of my great uncles. In 1936 growth rose to plus 12.9 % in 1937 the deficit hawks screamed to stop governmwnt spending and in 1938 growth fell to minus 3.3 % the government resumed spending in 1939 and the depression ended with growth of 8.0 %
In FDRs inaugural address in 1937 the one where he spoke of one third of the nation still in poverty there was little evidence the wealthy had any less dominant position than they had before WW-l But a mere decade later the rich had clearly been demoted. It was not by accident nor did it happen gradually it happened quite suddenly. This sudden decline in the fortunes of the wealthy can be explained in large part with just one word; taxes
The three decades from the mid 40’s to mid 70’s were the golden age of manual labor. In fact by the end of the 1950’s American men with a high school degree but no college were earning about as much, adjusted for inflation as workers with similar qualifications make to day. And their relative status was of course much higher. Blue collar workers with especially good jobs often made as much or more than many college-educated professionals. Why was this the case ? To some extent they were helped by the state of the world economy. US manufacturers could pay more because they faced little foreign competition. They were also helped by a scarcity of labor created by the severe immigration restrictions imposed by the Immigration Act of 1924. But if there was a single reason blue collar workers did so much better in the fifties than they had in the twenties it was the rise of unions.
Until the new deal the federal government was a reliable ally of of employers seeking to suppress union organizing or crush existing unions. Under FDR it became instead a protector of workers right to organize
Oh but he did lift millions of us out by 1932-- 28... (
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Nicolai, still you do not cite your source for this cut and paste job. Why? Let me guess, it is either the SEIU or the AFL-CIO and it is grossly mistaken.
1) We do not live on a One Sum Pie Planet.
2) The government cannot redistribute the wealth, the consumers redistribute the wealth,
3) hence we need more businesses, more competition, more workers, and more consumers.
4) It was against the law for labor unions to organize government employees, they were deemed a national security threat under FDR and until President Kennedy passed Executive Order #10988. Actually, FDR got it right. Nothing has changed since WWII.
You copied some source with no reference again: "In FDRs inaugural address in 1937 the one where he spoke of one third of the nation still in poverty there was little evidence the wealthy had any less dominant position than they had before WW-l But a mere decade later the rich had clearly been demoted."
So, is that your goal, making everybody equally poor instead of unequally rich?
You need to know something: Earl Browder in the 1930s was president of the American Communist Party which had been allied with Kaiser Wilhelm in WWI and Hitler in WWII. Under Julius and Armand Hammer, (both KGB agents and card carrying communists) they organized the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) affiliated with the ACP to overthrow the American Federation of Labor and the United States Government.
President Roosevelt was at first, an isolationist, promising Mussolini and Hitler we would not enter the European conflict. Read FDR's letters in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shire. Next you need to know that numerous labor unions, following the instructions of Stalin, engaged in Industrial Sabotage and Espionage for the USSR and its ally, the NAZIs, who were in a secret industrial and financial alliance.
Want a source? Just FOIA the FBI for "Labor Unions": "Sabotage" and "Espionage." There are thousands of pages. You will have to pay charges for the printing of documents as I did.
Oh, "the golden age of manual labor" - cut the drama and goo poured all over it. 80% of the American workforce is
non-unionized and refuses to join these jerks. Union leaders do not represent their rank and file because they make too much money sleeping with the enemy and cutting sweetheart deals under the table with galloping corporate combines and crooked Democrat politicians.
Would you like to talk about John Sweeney, insider trading, and the rank and files' vanishing AFL-CIO pension funds invested with Global Crossing and its accountant Arthur Andersen?