so I'm posting the web page so I can go back and read and re-read.. love history
especially when we just may be re-living a bit of it.. only this time globally:
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2008/11/obama_and_fdr.html
Okay, I'm quoting a blog entry by Brooksfoe.. because I really liked it and thought it was brilliantly written.. I even commented to tell him so..
The following is his blog entry!
"The reason conservatives like to bruit this argument about is that trying to end recessions through public works programs is gay, while ending recessions by firebombing enemy cities is manly. Building national parks? Gay. Building B-29s? Manly. It wasn't the fiscal stimulus of WWII that ended the Depression; the Depression ended via a mysterious testosterone-plus-airborne-ordnance alchemical reaction which took place when the boots hit the beaches at Normandy. To solve the current economic crisis, in other words, we must bomb China. Though perhaps bombing Germany and Japan again might do the trick too -- with Toyota and BMW out of the way, Ford and GM might just have a shot at escaping bankruptcy."
Congrats to Brookfoe - I love this! So very well written!
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