Yes, in the days before government intervention, unemployment was zero.
Wait, no, that’s completely false, and fucking stupid.
Read a fucking book, you moron.
I have read reports that Social Security earns something like below one percent interest. If those same seniors had invested that money in even a relatively safe investment, they would have much more money at retirement. Is that incorrect?
Of course that’s incorrect, you idiot.
Social security is a pay-as-you-go plan. If you don’t know that, you should probably educate yourself before opening your mouth.
In the government-free paradise of Somalia, unemployment is at a terrifically low 54%!!!
Take that, you libtards!
And then sometimes they’re my friend who finds out she has late state breast cancer in her early forties and can’t work because she is sick from the treatment for the disease half the fucking month. Her latest treatments have made her so radioactive she has to meet with the health officials to discuss who can even be around her for a prolonged time.
Well I tried to find some data on this but evidently unemployment was measured before the 20s.
At any rate, the rate during the 20s was virtually zero. Those were the days of Harding Coolidge who were free market presidents.
Then came the decade of the 30s with Hoover and FDR who were both meddlers. They were much more into the idea that the govt can fix things. Then we had…well…the Great Depression. So…there’s your history lesson.
Cases like these are serious and I don’t dismiss them. I would suggest, however, that there are far better ways to deal with this than to have the govt take over. The govt ruins everything it touches. I don’t think your friend is going to be any the better off for having govt swoop into help.
“Thinking” like this is what happens when you live in a black and white world.
I don’t care what it is. They take my money, hold it, then return it. So…why not take my money, put in the bank, then return it. The latter option would make me much richer.
It’s amazing how brainwashed you people can be. The govt spin machine has you right around their finger.
ok…fine. But some things are just so clear. We know for a fact that countries with high amounts of economic freedom are more prosperous, take better care of the enviroment, have more human rights for minorities, etc. etc. So…if liberty does these things, then we ought to give it a chance to do this in the U.S.
Absolute bullshit from the side who’s motto seems to be “The government is fucked up, and we’ll prove it to you…even if we have to deliberately fuck it up ourselves!” :rolleyes:
Everything you just said was wrong.
Here’s actual historical unemployment rates. Actual facts show that the unemplyment rate in 1921 was 16.9%. Now, reading isn’t as easy as just making up ignorant uneducated stupid shit, so feel free not to follow the link.
Cite for this “fact”, please?
Yes, everything you said in this thread has been wrong, but we’re the brainwashed ones. Funny how that works.
I’m honestly confused here. What is it that makes conservatives so fucking stupid? How can anyone be this fucking stupid and continue to function day to day?
Here’s an honest answer: it isn’t stupidity. It’s a psychological state called the “just world” mindset. People who are threatened by powerlessness want to believe that they’re in control of their lives, so when bad things happen to other people they pretend it was because of something bad that person did. Rape victim? Must have been something she was wearing. Can’t pay medical bills? Must not have saved enough. Lost their job? Should have sucked their boss off when he asked. Etc.
How the hell do some conservatives fact-check? Do they say the first thing that pops into their heads, then wait to see if any of their compatriots nods and/or grins stupidly?
Of course, none of that applies when the bad things happen to the conservatives.
Conservatives who fact-check end up as liberals. This kind of Darwinistic die-off ensures that after a few generations only the congenitially stupid are fit to compete in the conservative niche.
You are quite right! There was a crash in 1921 that was in some respects even more severe than the crash in 1929. But only two years later, full employment was reached. And Warren Harding did virtually NOTHING. Fast forward to 1929 and Hoover does everything in his power to prevent economic recession (read: economic correction). Then FDR comes along and does even MORE than Hoover and…you get the GREAT depression. Even wonder why the difference between the two? You can also see this in the way Reagan handled the depression of 1987(?)