"Margin buying, not Republicans, caused the market crash, but you probably aren't interested in facts. And Democrats didn't fix the Great Depression. Unemployment didn't get below 15% until the start of the war. If anything, the Japanese fixed the Great Depression."
Really, so the fact that Republicans dominated Congress for the entire decade leading up to the depression and controlled the Presidency had nothing to do with it (and anyway, the Depression didn't really begin until several years later). They get all the credit for the 'roaring twenties' (which was all fake prosperity that the depression exposed) but the fact not only the stock market but industrial production completely collapsed while they sat on their hands and did nothing has nothing to do with them. I imagine what you'd say if Democrats were in power in the 20s.
" And Democrats didn't fix the Great Depression."
The New Deal cut unemployment from over 25% when Roosevelt took office to 14% in 1937. It only went back up slightly because Roosevelt decided to cut spending. That's fixing the problem. Hoover had years to do something about the rise of unemployment and he did nothing.
"Unemployment didn't get below 15% until the start of the war."
False. Unemployment was 14.3% in 1937.
"So, you're saying that Iraq and Afghanistan are wars of aggression, and that the Korean and Vietnam Wars (started and lost by Democrats) were not expensive wars of aggression?"
I am not saying they were not wars of aggression. However, unlike those wars, Bush decided to massively *cut* taxes in the middle of a war which led to massive deficits. Also, Bush waged not one but two expensive wars of aggression.
"Nixon also cleaned up after the Democrat-started Vietnam shitstorm, which is infinitely bigger and more of a clusterfuck than Watergate."
How do you figure he "cleaned it up"? By escalating the thing to Cambodia & Laos, bombing those countries to shit so communism can spread to Laos and Cambodia can come under the control of the Khmer Rouge? Nixon's policy in Vietnam was an utter failure. Keep in mind Nixon throughout the whole of the 50s and 60s was the foremost *proponent* of intervention in Vietnam. He was lobbying for intervention as far back as the French war with the Viet Minh. Peace talks in Vietnam began as early as *1968*. It took Nixon 5 years to get a deal. Some speculate, with good reason, that Nixon secretly told the South Vietnamese government to back off from peace talks with the North, after Johnson had finally stopped the bombing.
Nixon was a disaster. Stop defending him.
"Completely untrue statement. Next."
Inflation began skyrocketing under Nixon and continued under Ford. Carter inherited a horrible economy. The person credited with stopping inflation was Paul Volcker, a *Carter* appointee. Carter created more jobs on an annual basis than Reagan did.
"Reagan and Bush left the country with a booming economy"
I'm sorry how old are you? Do you have any memory of the Bush I years? A booming economy it was not. The early 1990s was a recession. Unemployment doubled under his reign.
"He did so by nearly wrecking the military. He is also one of only two presidents to be impeached and should have been removed from office for perjury."
Are you suggesting that the military is a net drag on the economy? On this we agree.
The Republicans waged a jihad against Clinton from day one. They were determined to destroy him and abused the impeachment process to try and do it. The American people kicked their asses out of power in '98, as a reward for their shutting down the government and acting like hypocritical thugs who sleep around while trying to impeach Clinton for it.
"Who was in control of Congress when the economy collapsed?"
Uh, Republicans. The economy began falling apart in 2006. But I guess who controls Congress or *the entire government, as was the case when the Great Depression began* only matters when you can try and pin it on Democrats.
Your President implemented the tax cuts. Your President completely gutted any regulation of the markets and made the SEC toothless. Your President balked at any Democrat proposals for reform.
"Oh, really? Tell me how? "
By creating 2.4 million jobs a year, whereas when Bush left office we were losing 800,000 a *month*.
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