On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:08:51 GMT, Jonathan Ball
wrote:


But instead the FDR administration
put in place even more costs such as higher income taxes, SS
taxes, collective bargaining, a disruption in the capital
market by the imposition of the SEC, institutionalizing
inflexible wage rates, etc.

The depression was well under way long before Roosevelt
was inaugurated in 1933.

Gentlemen...below is the #1 reason the Depression was far more than a
market readjustment

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=66

Read it and then discuss it in this thread, alone with its
permutations and history of what it later wrought, even though itself
only lasted for 2 yrs.

Gunner

" ..The world has gone crazy. Guess I'm showing my age...
I think it dates from when we started looking at virtues
as funny. It's embarrassing to speak of honor, integrity,
bravery, patriotism, 'doing the right thing', charity,
fairness. You have Seinfeld making cowardice an acceptable
choice; our politicians changing positions of honor with
every poll; we laugh at servicemen and patriotic fervor; we
accept corruption in our police and bias in our judges; we
kill our children, and wonder why they have no respect for
Life. We deny children their childhood and innocence- and
then we denigrate being a Man, as opposed to a 'person'. We
*assume* that anyone with a weapon will use it against his
fellowman- if only he has the chance. Nah; in our agitation
to keep the State out of the church business, we've
destroyed our value system and replaced it with *nothing*.
Turns my stomach- " Chas , rec.knives