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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:04 PM Original message |
When did "The New Deal" become a dirty word? |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. When it became a euphemism for anal sex. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. I thought the toe tappin freepers liked anal sex?! |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. It's not that they like it, they just can't figure out which hole is the right one |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. ! |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's not a bad thing, of course. It's just Freeper historical revisionism. |
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Idealism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. Because it is Anti-Friedmanism |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Yes I remember my freeper dad saying it was WWII that ended the depression |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Huge jolt ... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Yes very true |
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Idealism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. The huge jolt after the war |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Yes and also the huge European markets looking to rebuild |
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Idealism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Yes because immediately after ww2 there was an easing of tariffs |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 07:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
36. It's not a question of what ended the depression |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. To the corporate masters its always been a dirty word |
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marylanddem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. The New Deal saved this country - it's a beautiful phrase. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. The new deal gave us the middle class. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
7. Don't forget Hoover Dam. n/t |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. As compared to damn Hoover? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Well yeah - I could spend all day listing off New Deal projects |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. We could spend all day doing that, yes. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 06:25 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Yes - exactly |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 06:43 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. That would be interesting to try to imagine what we'd be like ... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 06:47 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Oh this place would be hell |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 07:00 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. The west gets electricity from Hoover as well! |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:18 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. My aunts still refer to it as Boulder Dam. They hate Hoover. nt |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. LOL! Sorry Tsuki's Aunts! n/t |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
8. They tie socialism with communism in their pea brains... |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. It STILL isn't to me... |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:15 PM Original message |
Same time Liberal did |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
15. It always was to the wealthy and to morons and lackeys |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Well yes, every dollar someone else has is one you don't |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
21. Reagan |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
22. Around the time of Reagan for sure. It was thought of that the GOP had the new ideas |
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Idealism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Exactly right |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. Well in terms of the "Democratic Party" it would be January 1995 |
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NaturalHigh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
33. My great-grandfather worked for the WPA. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
35. When the working class, |
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