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<blockquote data-quote="Proximity" data-source="post: 7927241" data-attributes="member: 589997">If FDR&#039;s policies were so horrible, how was the GDP growth the highest it&#039;s ever been, other than during WWII, right after he was elected?<img src="http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2009/2/4/saupload_09_02_02f_gdp_since_1930.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />And I already told you why unemployment shot up again in the ate 30s: it&#039;s because FDR ended the stimulus spending and tried to balance the budget because conservatives demanded it. It failed miserably, and he resumed it and it began to go down again. Notice how the deficit goes down to 0 right around when the unemployment shot up:<img src="http://xpda.com/junkmail/junk214/deficit.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />And you act like unemployment being at 14% isn&#039;t a huge improvement, unemployment was 25% when FDR was elected.And &quot;A lot of the money spent on the war was spent privately&quot;? Um, who do you think was paying for all those tanks and planes? It was the Government. This stuff really isn&#039;t hard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Proximity, post: 7927241, member: 589997"] If FDR's policies were so horrible, how was the GDP growth the highest it's ever been, other than during WWII, right after he was elected? [IMG]http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2009/2/4/saupload_09_02_02f_gdp_since_1930.png[/IMG] And I already told you why unemployment shot up again in the ate 30s: it's because FDR ended the stimulus spending and tried to balance the budget because conservatives demanded it. It failed miserably, and he resumed it and it began to go down again. Notice how the deficit goes down to 0 right around when the unemployment shot up: [IMG]http://xpda.com/junkmail/junk214/deficit.png[/IMG] And you act like unemployment being at 14% isn't a huge improvement, unemployment was 25% when FDR was elected. And "A lot of the money spent on the war was spent privately"? Um, who do you think was paying for all those tanks and planes? It was the Government. This stuff really isn't hard. [/QUOTE]

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