My New, New Deal for the economy.

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ManusJustus said:

HappySqurriel said:

Although the New Deal was popular, there are many who believe that the government involvement in the ecconomy was one of the reasons why the American ecconomy took so much longer to recover from the Great Depression than other countries (many of which were harder hit) around the world.

Those people would be wrong because Roosevelts economic polices brought about one of the best times in American economy.  And yes, Germany and the Soviet Union did better during the Great Depression, but Germany was a fascist war industry and the Soviet Union's command economy wasn't even touched by the market.

 

 First off,  Great post Steven!  You seem to always have sound discussion points and I really enjoy your posts.  This is great with a clear observation.

 

Secondly, Happy Squirrel in relation to Germany/Deutschland, I think I understand your post to reflect the way they recovered from the great depression, until of course being crushed in 1945.  However, the Great Depression hit them the hardest and they were the most destitue of any nation in 1932.  Not sure as to whether or not that was to be reflected in your response.  Also I would like to point out that I feel the word fascist is misused here.  I think people generally refer to the term totalitarion or something of this nature.  I say this because Hitler and the NSDAP were Socialists and Anti-Fascists.  Also, militarily they fought against the fascists in Spain in 1936.