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- From: bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil (Brett Kottmann)
- Newsgroups: soc.history,alt.politics.elections,alt.politics.marrou
- Subject: Re: Libertarians and 1930's
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.155837.1830@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:58:37 EST
- References: <1992Nov15.022850.13866@midway.uchicago.edu> <92320.112633U23590@ui <1992Nov15.201336.3107@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov15.233547.19002@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.233547.19002@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov15.201336.3107@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dcosley@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Daniel R Cosley) writes:
- >>ted frank claims that free markets would never have gotten the U.S. out of the
- >>Great Depression.
- >
- > It's not a claim. It's an empirical fact. Hoover shrunk government
- > spending from 1929 to 1933. Other than the tariffs (which really wouldn't
- > have made much difference unless Europe went Lib also), I don't see what
- > Hoover did that was different from what the Libertarians would have done.
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- Raised taxes.
- Tariffs.
- Messed with both banking and securities markets.
-
- >>Of course, we'll never know how it would have done, but is
- >>he trying to say that FDR's policies did any better?
- >
- > Yep. He saved the country from revolution and demagoguery. He stole
- > the thunder from people far more radical than he.
-
- I don't think so. And "President for Life" is hardly a nice
- alternative to "demagoguery".
-
- But then we agree on very little, don't we :).
-
- Brett
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