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Yepp.The very beginning of the OP begins with the claim that FDR prolonged the Great Depression. It is the conclusive ending to her opening statement. The conclusion of an opening statement defines the purpose of the thesis and the subject that is meant to be proven with the containing material in the thesis.
The academically accepted way to refute a thesis is to attack it at the beginning. This is preferred rather than a system of cherry picking factoids and quotes that can lead to endless back and forth disjointed debates over context and how those various factoids are even facts and whether quotes are or are not connected.
PC's claim that FDR prolonged the Great Depression is a claim that was debated and lost decades ago. It gets revived by the anti New Deal and FDR folks like the OP, but they never bring forward new data. They simply omit the data that caused their side of the debate to loose the debate decades ago and continuously ever since.
No matter how much the OP says her facts are not refuted, not one, the reader can easily look at the original post opening statement and see where she presents as a fact that FDR prolonged the depression. I refuted her statement as being non factual and offered as evidence the faulty data she was basing her statement on. That is what refuting a fact is. You claim it is wrong and offer evidence to prove why it is wrong. The OP becomes obligated to disprove the case made against her claim. She can not just shrug it off and move on to some other point. Whether other facts are true, false, embellished, exaggerated, etc. becomes irrelevant once the original claim of the thesis is refuted.
The OP has been challenged on some of her other claims. It was pointed out she misunderstood the relationship and differing priorities of FDR and Mogenthau, but while I briefly began that debate with the OP, I doubt that a person who can not comprehend the Legergott/Darby differences and distinctions would be able to discuss the more complicated one of FDR and Morgenthau.
Finally, I have continued to pester the OP over her often used source, Chesly Manly. It is impossible to check background and legitimacy of a non person author. Publications, especially newspapers promoting agenda's, use pen names so that background checks can't be made and questions can't be asked and demanded directly to the writer or alleged author of a story. The author takes on the credibility of an anonymous poster on a message board or blogger with an untraceable and unknown name and address. A person presenting a legitimate thesis must be able to present evidence of credibility for sources presented. Manly has no more credibility than a Archie and Jughead comic book.
One more thing, does anyone have a clue what I posted that was vulgar? What was the alleged barn yard thing?
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