Comment on Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple

• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL. There’s an obvious question though of whether the economic demand of hunting Nazis ended the great depression or some other economic or social policies or a combo of several. We do know the New Deal extended the depression. reason.org/…/fdr-policies-doubled-the-lengt/#:~:t….

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  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well hot damn! I looked up that paper and, unlike a lot of right-wing news sources, it’s real and says what it say you say it says.

    Still though, another resource I use complicates the conclusion of that paper. So, okay, I’ll admit that the New Deal’s economic effects were complicated. Maybe it didn’t lead to the best economic times in America? It obviously couldn’t have been the war because the war ended. Maybe the war gave it a sort of start…but what was actually sustained until the 1970s?

    TIL x2, and I stand corrected again. Every time, I just gonna make a link to the last time I was corrected in this community, because why not.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What sustained us? A common theory I’ve heard is WW2. Most the world had to rebuild from WW2 which gave us many years economic prosperity.

      I’m not sure if it’s true. I tend to disagree but I think it may be a valid explanation. We didn’t suffer the loses of Japan, Germany, Russia, etc.

      While we lost lives, our country was relatively untouched. Japan occupied parts of Alaska, attacked Oregon a few times but really we didn’t experience the infrastructure losses the other countries did.

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