Reply #15: I'm not convinced in any way, shape or form [View All]

[lcordero2]

Before the 1930's the United States was a company town from coast to coast. People literally "owed their souls to the company store". Man, woman, and child had to work in factories almost 20 hours a day so that they could just get by. "Upward mobility" was only for the privileged few. In 1929, a depression didn't just "happen" it was manufactured. What they didn't tell you in the history books is that for some curious reason the same people and their descendants that have destroyed nation after nation for the recorded history of the past 1,000 or so years remained totally untouched and retained their ill-gotten wealth through a crash that they engineered. The purpose of the New Deal was to save the government at the time, not to save the people. 13 million people were unemployed, which was something like 25%...our real numbers are probably somewhat worst today. Add the 13 million people to the people that saw their wages drop and you will see a lot of angry people. The New Deal was an act of desperation for the government to save itself from a revolution...it had absolutely nothing to do with altruism. "Rights" and "prosperity" are carrots that are dangled and never given to the masses by the "elites".