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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (73965)	5/28/2018 10:48:50 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 364306

A little more history for you. This caused Hoover the election, thank god! Bonus Army - Wikipedia The Bonus Army were the 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, .... Most of the Bonus Army camped in a "Hooverville" on the Anacostia Flats, a swampy, muddy area across the Anacostia River from the On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the Army to clear the marchers' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned. The Bonus Army were the 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the "Bonus Expeditionary Force", to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the "Bonus Army" or "Bonus Marchers". The contingent was led by Walter W. Waters, a former sergeant. Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates. en.wikipedia.org

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (73965)

5/28/2018 10:54:34 AM

From: koan

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Here are some pictures for you of the extent of the great depression on poverty and misery and the failure of churches to address the problem.

But democracy addressed it when we elected FDR and Democrats to address the problem and why the people loved FDR. He also put millions to work in the first 6 months.

FDR and the Great Depression

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president in 1932. He immediately embarked on an ambitious plan to get the country out of the Great Depression

His signature domestic legislation, the New Deal, expanded the role of the federal government in the nation’s economy in an effort to address the challenges of the Great Depression

google.com

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"Republicans barbarity in dealing with it"
Yeah, my folks told us about how R's came thru their villages burning everything and raping babies. Or not; perhaps you don't know what the word means.

bar·bar·ic

1)
savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal.

"he had carried out barbaric acts in the name of war"

synonyms:

brutal, barbarous, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, monstrous, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, fiendish, diabolical

"barbaric crimes"

2)
primitive; unsophisticated.

"the barbaric splendor he found in civilizations since destroyed"

synonyms:

brutal, barbarous, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, monstrous, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, fiendish, diabolical

"Many people starved to death "
Fake news.