Senate back in session, Ensign giving a revisionist history of the great depression

[MiniMe]

I never realized that the 1929 stock market crash wasn't part of the depression, it was a stock market re-adjustment. Coolidge caused the depression by raising taxes.

Give me a break.

[eleny]

1. And the crash was an adjustment just like the dot com bubble bursting

Revising the dot com bubble, too. It wasn't bad or caused by lying thieves or because there was no separation between analysts and loan divisions. It was just a necessary adjustment.

:wtf:

[Old Codger]

2. According to

History I have read the "official" start of the depression was more than a year after the stock market crashed ... but no one I know is trying to separate the two..He sounds like somewhat of an idiot but from what I have seen of Nevada's representatives and senators they need to make some serious changes including Reid

[valerief]

3. And people used to keep dinosaurs for pets. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

5. But dinosaurs are expensive to feed

and people went broke buying dinosaur food, which is what caused the great depression, which was followed by the extinction of the unfed dinosaurs.

So don't worry, folks. There will b no new depression. People don't keep dinosaurs as pets any more.

[valerief]

6. Ah, but those pet fertilized eggs aren't cheap now. nt

[ljm2002]

4. So they are using the extra time...

...to get their current historical revision out there, as per usual.

And again, we need to lead the debate.

Please, Democrats: lead with 600,000 jobs lost just last month. Lead with home foreclosures. Lead with the disaster that is developing as these ideologues spin, spin, spin...

Is anyone asking the question: what will our society look like, when the only owners of homes are the banks? When the great majority of people are living crammed into apartments, or two or three families per home -- if not out on the streets? Where is the advantage to *anyone* of that situation? Except for the rich and the super-rich -- and that advantage won't last long, when the little people suddenly wake up to their own suffering and quit taking it upon their own shoulders -- when we all really see whose shoulders the responsibility belongs on, there is no telling what will happen then.

Is that what we want to see happen? The great majority of people in dire straits, the few in the middle class cowed and keeping their heads down in the hope that they aren't next, and the "lucky" few (read: the greedy, sociopathic elements) still living it up, high on the hog, and carping that it "isn't American" to require CEOs to take a mere half a million in salary, even when they are feeding at the public trough? Are we there yet?