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I had no idea! Thanks!

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That's because Rand pretty much ignores The Depression. She makes one split second mention of it and then goes on with the story. It's the way of thinking that events like that are insignificant and that people can just go on ahead and ignore it and get on with their lives. It's the thinking of "who cares about outside events, just work hard enough and succeed anyway".

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We'd be in a lot better shape if Dems and progressives were as adamant in defending their principles as the Pugs are in defending theirs. Of course, having most of the mainstream media in your pockets doesn't hurt the Pugs much at all...

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I think you're ready for this heavy duty book report: https://www.washingtonpost....

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You're right Dok, I was much too sober to make sense of that Bulwer-Lytton Balderdash

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Now that is quite a book report, "...Yellow symbolizes cowardice. It also refers to portions of the book dealing with Investigative Techniques, but I think it can mean both things at the same time..."Petri can be deadly

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My mom's grandmother wouldn't even have a Hoover vacuum in the house. True story!

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This book enlightened me on the modern tradition of not criticizing your successor in the White House, showing it to be a modern construct. My new theory is that Eisenhower’s (and Carter’s, and Clinton’s) decency, JFK’s assasination, and Reagan/Bush and Bush II stinking up the place so bad.....were coincidences that just led to that modern expectation of ex-president’s keeping their mouths shut.

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"You might think the demonstrable lack of complete economic collapse might have been a bit persuasive, but Hoover remained convinced socialism and disaster were just around the corner."

Republicans in 1992: "Bill Clinton is a socialist who will destroy America." Reality: Bill Clinton benefits from GHWB's tax increase, and the beginning of the internet, balances the budget and achieves full employment.

Republicans in 2008: "Barack Obama is a dangerous Kenyan, communist, Muslim, socialist who is destroying America from within with his dangerous socialist policies, and he'll also screw your wife, and kill your grandma with affordable health care."Reality: Barack Obama sees the stock market triple, unemployment drop by 6 points, and housing prices double within his 8 years.

I'm beginning to sense a pattern here.

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My grandfather never called him anything but "That goddamned Hoover." Grandpa Steve was just-married, with a son, and out of work in 1932, until 1937. He lived until 1986, and never got any less angry about that goddamned Hoover.

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Ain't nuclear physics, kids: https://www.businessinsider...

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All true. Equally important was 'inflation panic', causing the Fed to begin tightening prematurely. Something that the 'yeah, but WWII...' Crowd don't seem to grasp, is, well, what was WWII's influence? Oh, yeah--massive GUBMINT SPENDINGS, duh.

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I thought it interesting that the "trickle down" thing went back at least to Hoover's era, maybe it's even older? But yes, this book did not paint a very flattering picture of Herbert, despite his "principled" stance.

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I live near Hearst Castle. It was designed by Julia Morgan. One other good thing about Mr. Hearst.

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I was astonished that most of the reviewers thought that those policies were a good idea, despite the experience of their whole lives! The most erudite of them asserted that the ideas in the movie were created by Democrats, and FDR loved the movie.

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He inspired a fairly good melodrama with some amazing camerawork.

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