Reply #20: I think the "depression" was not serious enough to really bring the people out...

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Remember that in the Great Depression beginning in 1929, US unemployment reached 25% in the mid 1930's and was only brought below 10% by our beginning production of war materiel for Europe in 1940 and our later entry into WWII in late 1941.

FWIW, I have heard extremeist republicans saying the same about the unemployed in the great depression as they are saying about them now-they are lazy and will not work by choice...and also that "while 25% were out of work, 75% had jobs, so things were not so bad..."They never have anything new or real to say...

But it took over twice the unemployment we have now to generate regional strikes and union activity...I am not surprised there is little going on here. We still have it good compared to many in the world.


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