Idiot.Better then what it was, and given the sheer scale of the depression, he was amazing. Unemployment continually went down, and saying the WPA and other programs failed is fucking hilarious.. EMPLOYERS WERENT FUCKING HIRING. Brain dead con bs.LOL! Yes, Roosevelt helped people into 20% unemployment for nearly a decade. Unemployment didnt fall until we started drafting people into the military in the 1940s.Are you truly this stupid? FDR did not prolong the depression, he helped working people get through it and set a precedent.Straw man.Yes, fundamentally the economic situation in 1930 was far worse than the situation in 1920. The situation in 1920 allowed for the market to correct itself. The situation in 1930, when economic demand crashed worldwide in a prolonged manner, did not.Beautiful! The quick recovery in 1920 was just a freak of nature.
The extended downturn of the Great Depression was caused by government.
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You won't find any serious support for the idea that FDR caused the depression whereas the Market God would have solved things itself, except from true believers in your market worship religion.
No one claims FDR caused teh Depression. But he did prolong the Depression. Every country in Europe was in recovery by the 1930s. The US was the exception.
Hoover was a Progressive and his policies made the recession worse. Smoot-Hawley was one of the many drivers of the crash. FDR doubled down on stupid. Obama is tripling down on it.
Great Depression, Great Recession | Roosevelt Institute
I suppose you think people would be better off without any of FDRS employment programs, although I'm sure you'll ignore the fact unemployment went down when he was in office, just not at a super fast pace.
Roosevelt stuck people in make work programs that did nothing to help the economy bt did make it harder for employers to get good employees.
1932: 23.6%
1934: 21.7%
1936: 16.9%
1938: 19%
Yes tell me how it was going down. 17% unemployment after 5 years of FDR. That is a failure only a lib could love. And of course we get the usual excuse for every failed government program: We didnt spend enough.