Can Financial Markets Avoid Collapse? by Danny Schechter

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1. FDR's programs pulled us out of the Great Depression

WWII pulled us out of the Great Recession of 1937, caused by Congress voting in a balanced budget that prematurely ended all FDRs programs that had been working so well.

War is never the answer to anything and costs us much more than we could ever hope to save by it unless we are keeping barbarian hordes directly invading the country at bay. It most certainly did not end the Great Depression.

But yes, the right wing loves to push that lie. We can now rub their noses in the fact that we've had two wars dragging on for 10 years now and we're still edging into depression because those wars aren't doing a damned thing but killing a lot of people on all sides while squandering money and oil we don't have to spare.