| Senlis said: It's funny how everyone is ready to misread the post to defend FDR. I did not say FDR passed the tariff; Neither does Sowell. Hoover passed the tariff, which caused the massive unemployment. The point is that if FDR had left the economy alone when he came to office, the Great Depression would have ended a lot sooner. Instead, he expanded on Hoover's legislature with his "New Deal" and prolonged it. Economists know that during a recession (or depression), there is a certain cycle of going low and then rising back up the businesses have to do before the recession/depression ends. Government interventions slow that cycle down. In M.A.S.H., when Charles whould not talk to Hawkeye or B.J., one of the worst insult Hawkeye says to get Charles to speak is "Your family voted for Roosevelt......four times!!!!!!!" And, before anyone says it, I am not saying Roosevelt is worse than Hoover. It is that Roosevelt was so popular when in office, as opposed to what people think of him now.
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Actually, I did not read your post...therefore, I could not have misread it. I only included it because it contained both of Tyagi's posts. Anyway, you are preaching to the choir. I have, in my own estimation, been the most staunch opponent of Hoover and Roosevelt's policies on VGChartz. Aside from the S-H Tariff, the wage controls that Hoover pressured companies to enact were also detrimental. The wage controls were as equally if not more detrimental than S-H.
