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  • Beware!!

    I saw this chart on a blog entry defending FDR. I have seen this blog entry quoted before in other forums, etc. The problem that I have with it is that it is misleading. The lowest dip in U.S. Industrial Production was in 1932 not in 1933. The market hit bottom on July 2, 1932 […]

    Thursday 24th September 2009 - 11:52:22 PM | Comment (1)

  • Hoover: Truth in the Middle

    I did more reading on Herbert Hoover finding him a very interesting man the more I read about him. Hoover was a good man who meant well. He had success dealing with disasters in the past working as head of Committee for the Relief in Belgium (1914-1917), U. S. Food Administration during WWI under […]

    Thursday 24th September 2009 - 11:05:46 PM | Comment

  • The Hoover Myth

    This is the official history—Roosevelt’s successors, Republicans Calvin Coolidge and Warren G. Harding, “wanted to have so little federal government that, if it closed down, nobody noticed, and the main place most people saw the federal government was at the post office and only there.” Roosevelt started the Public Works Program of 1933.

    WRONG– Harding might […]

    Thursday 24th September 2009 - 4:58:37 PM | Comment