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To: combjelly who wrote (522945)	10/23/2009 10:20:11 AM
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I have better things to do with my time than read screeds from the Cato Institute. Especially one that counters common sense. Exactly. You don't understand the concept and you don't WANT to understand it. If you don't like that author's professional associations there are others which I linked. But the fact of the matter is it doesn't comport with your liberal ideology so you're having none of it. As I have pointed out, if FDR's policies were so bad, why didn't other countries which didn't have similar policies recover quicker? What we have here is a Koan moment. Arguing that a complex point is simple just because YOU don't understand it. Ask the question in the converse. The American economy was a major driver and the incompetent policy we pursued dragged it out for everyone. For example, Smoot-Hawley and FDR's mishandling of the Gold situation. But these relationships are the tip of the iceberg. The Great Depression was not a uniquely American event, it was global. Of course it was. Which has nothing to with what we were discussing, which is the failed policy of FDR to help the situation.