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2. Oh, FFS, when FDR was inaugurated in 1933 the national unemployment rate was 25%. In

Reply to louis c (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 07:14 PM

Sep 2012

other words, 1 out of every 4 able-bodied Americans was out of work then. Capitalism itself (and bourgeois liberal democracy) was on the ropes.

As bad as January 2009 was, it was nowhere near as bad as March 4, 1933.

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