Cool blog: News from 1930. Guess what Hoover kept saying, over and over....

dixiegrrrrl

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Sat Feb-06-10 07:11 PM
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Cool blog: News from 1930. Guess what Hoover kept saying, over and over....

This blog is a remarkable peek into what the "newsmakers" of the day were saying in 1930, about the Depression, how they viewed it, how they fought calls for help from different groups, etc.

Unfortunately, it is too eerily like today.

I recommend a peek.

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/

tip of the hat to Allentown Jake who found it first.:fistbump:

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ashling

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Sat Feb-06-10 08:18 PM
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1. Here is an interesting piece of environmental news

Edited on Sat Feb-06-10 08:19 PM by ashling

Swiss Glacier Commission has started an experiment to measure speed of glacier movement, which is only a few inches a year. Results of the experiment not expected to be known for 8 generations.

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Wonder how that turned out :sarcasm:

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dixiegrrrrl

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Sat Feb-06-10 08:33 PM
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2. Interesting...who said that back then?

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ashling

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Sat Feb-06-10 09:05 PM
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3. It doesn't say

:shrug:

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More_liberal_than_mo

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Sat Feb-06-10 09:17 PM
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4. Very Interesting than Pres. Hoover

was threatening a veto over Veterans Benefits, was totally against unemployment compensation, and finally did not believe in aid for those who lost everything in natural disasters or droughts, "it would be against traditional American method of handling charity".
What an asshole and he sounds just like most repubs today. Nothing seems to have changed.

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dixiegrrrrl

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Sat Feb-06-10 11:13 PM
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5. Interesting thing about Hoover..

In John Barry;'s quite excellent book, Rising Tide, the story of the Mississippi flood of 1927,
Hoover, before he ever ran for President, came across as a smart, compassionate man.
Completely at odds with how he is pictured as President during the Depression.
Must be the WH air or something.

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Odin2005

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Sun Feb-14-10 07:44 PM
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6. His personality had a lot to do with it.

Edited on Sun Feb-14-10 07:45 PM by Odin2005

He was in very deep denial and that made him more and more dogmatic as time went on. He was a (brilliant) engineer by training and had a gift for logistics but he suffered all the stereotypical personality faults associated with engineers.

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damyank913

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Thu Feb-18-10 10:03 AM
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11. In addition, he was listening to economists that had it wrong...

The same trickle down bitches that had Ray-gunz ear. They were into that "supply creates it's own demand" bullshit.

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RainDog

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Wed Feb-17-10 07:06 PM
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7. from what I read, the Morgans etc. didn't want any programs to help the poor

and they impeded a lot of his progress during his time in office. once he saw the financial mess and his early measures weren't working, he actually introduced precursors to New Deal legislation - but the gilded age powers (just as now) were able to block the plans.

and then, of course, all that unmitigated greed, operating under false economic dogma (social darwinism) and unregulated markets that were set up to take in suckers created a much worse situation for everyone... tho they were not hurt as much as everyone else... no where near, in fact.

why are we reliving this?

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GreenTea

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Wed Feb-17-10 08:54 PM
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8. Hoover was a republican and that's republican ideology today & yesterday-tax breaks,

Edited on Wed Feb-17-10 08:56 PM by GreenTea

incentives and subsidies (corporate welfare) for the rich and corporations...but workers should never expect to receive any help nor any support from the government for their tax dollars.

That's exactly what republican ideology is - The republican party has always been the party of the rich for the rich as well as their businesses & corporations, and it always will be....

Any worker who votes with the republican party is a fool, a complete uneducated dupe. (and there are many).

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trof

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Thu Feb-18-10 09:00 AM
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9. BIG advance in aviation safety:

"One far-sighted air transport co. is looking ahead to a time when the air is filled with planes. Although there has never been a case of two commercial planes colliding at night, Transcontinental & Western Air is eliminating any possibility of this by installing a red spotlight on the wings of all its planes."
:rofl:

BTW, Transcontinental and Western Air was the forerunner of TWA - Trans World Airlines. I flew for them for 35 years.

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damyank913

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Thu Feb-18-10 09:37 AM
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10. Anyone notice the Glass hearings about bank regulation?

I believe it was around a year later that the 1st Glass/Stiegel Act was passed. (1932?)

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dixiegrrrrl

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Fri Feb-19-10 10:41 PM
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12. And it was in 1999 that Geithner, as head of NY Fed then, removed the act.

Which is why history is repeating itself.

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upi402

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Sat Feb-20-10 04:16 PM
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13. We'll never learn from history it seems

Even smart people at DU have no taste for seeing that team Obama is a repeat of Clinton Republicanism, and the end of our 2 party system of democracy.

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