I have a suspicion - but I’m not entirely sure of it - that the financial crash of the Dirty 30s and it’s fallout probably lasted longer here in Canada than it did in the States. My parents talked about depression era living conditions in the late 40s and early 50s. I heard other parents talk the same way? A fact check I did says you Yanks recovered (or, at least, began to recover) in 1933. For us up here in Canada it was 1939. So I asked the AI the question and then it denied there was any difference in recovery times.
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We may never get a straight answer because a lot of this kind of stuff is subjective.
FDR's election squashed the upturn of 1933 right quick like. The USA returned to an even greater depression. We stayed there until after FDR died and the soldiers came back home from the war.
ReplyDelete"You are correct, Sir!" in my best Ed McMahon.
DeleteTo be fair, it wasn't FDR's fault, he was a commie, so whuttayagonnado? Yer gonna commie.
While I'm not old enough to remember, I've been taught that recovery in the USA didn't really start until we entered WWII and full recovery was only after WWII ended. Having the only real manufacturing base that wasn't bombed to shit kinda sealed that deal. I guess if you win the global warfare game you can name your price and let the money roll in. For a while, at least.
ReplyDeleteThat 1933 date is a fucking joke. That's when FDR finally got into office, running on a pledge to turn the economy around. There was no recovery in 1933. Only New Deal promises and bread lines.
As far as asking old people, assuming any are still alive, you might get some interesting answers. My wife's grandmother didn't even know there was a depression. She grew up on a farm and as far as she was concerned, everyone she knew was about the same level economically. She was poor and didn't even know it. Or else rich and didn't know it. Either way, being on a farm was the bee's knees back then, I guess.
My grandmother remembered working cotton fields with the share-croppers (mostly niggers, but the well- behaved kind), taking her small sack and filling it with cotton buds alongside the adults. Said she liked it, afterwards played games with the other kids. Her best Christmas present was an orange. A fucking orange. Again, poor and didn't know any better.
Part of the divide between Boomers and everyone else is that they came of age during the post-war recovery and got to enjoy the best economy our country has ever known. They may preach about hard work and all that, but they lived during the best economy years and don't even seem to realize it.
Also, get a book from the library. Google AI has already shit the bed and been compromised.
In 1936 the stock market had fully recovered and FDR enacted programs to knock it back down to prolong the depression for little people.
DeleteWell I’ve heard that too, McC. Up here in Canada the history teachers thought the sun shined out FDR’s ass, and that he walked on water. Who knows? Today Blumpf is tackling serious national problems… and every second shitlibbed woman with TDS will tell you he is the second coming of Hitler and possibly the antichrist.
ReplyDeleteActually FDR(spit) would have wheeled on water...
Delete@ Cederq, LMAO!
DeleteOf course in those days only the husband worked at one job and his weekly income was about $120 before federal income tax. State sales and income tax back them was unheard of.
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