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In reply to the discussion: Why are you so *angry*, Manny? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)and through the aftermath "over there." And you are absolutely right.
I haven't done the math, but I question whether recessions result when the gap between the incomes of rich and poor in a country get to a stress or tipping point. I suspect that based on my knowledge of history.
And, yes. Hitler road in on the promise to end a recession. If you talk to people who lived during his Reich, they will tell you that he did bring pretty full employment. That is the positive that people in Germany and Austria remember about him. The negative they also remember, but they almost always told me but Hitler gave people jobs.
We Democrats have to figure out a way to return to producing jobs as well as products in the USA. That is why I am hoping we will persuade Elizabeth Warren to run in 2016. She could maintain democracy while creating jobs. We have to have both. One without the other does not work well.