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Originally posted by nota
better Progressive then regressive
sorry to pop your bubble but the depression
was caused by the regressives and high import taxes
and without the progressives the child labor and unsafe working condisions and no unions would still be the rule
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The Unions and their contracts had nothing to do with the Progressives, Unions were powerful before the Progressives, and would have been powerful without the Progressives. Child labor laws were a product of cultural change, not the Progressives.
The best president in the 20th century, Calvin Coolidge, presided over the largest increase in personal wealth in the history of America prior to World War Two. Yes, you are correct in my opinion on the protectionist tariffs on imports, but all economic systems have up and down cycles. The import tariffs were passed at the same time a down cycle was starting which exacerbated it. Then Roosevelt was elected in 1932 and made what would have been a short economic down turn into a catastrophic economic disaster that lasted nearly 10 years. Roosevelt hurt more people, as a result of his fascist programs, than anyone before or since that time. We're still living with his crap programs and government attitudes today.