newfie
Well-Known Member
Not my fault that your dissertation overlooked the Neutrality Act. With a unemployment rate of 25% FDR had to act including the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. And while we're at it lets look at their numbers:
125,000 miles of roadway built.
89,000 miles of telephone lines erected
13,100 miles of trails created
40 million acres of farmland protected through the construction of erosion and sedimentation controls .
154 million square yards of lake and stream embankment stabilization.
814,000 acres of range revegetation.
800 state parks built.
52,000 acres of public campgrounds built
3 billion trees planted
3,470 fire towers erected.
97,000 miles of fire roads built.
All done by a bunch of kids busting ass for a dollar a day. 30 bucks a month and 25 of it sent back home to their starving families. Then off to World War II they marched . Oh sure, we didn't need to do that. We could have done a Hoover and simply waited for the economy to recover on it's own but after 3 years of Hoover it hadn't come back and the American people by that time had enough of Hoover just as they did last month and made it clear that they had enough of Trump.
all that did nothing to pull us out of the depression. FDR became president in 1933 . WWII pulled us out of the depression in 1941
looking at your post though you mike like living in North Korea. they have a lot of similar make work programs going on there.