We have these springing up all over the UK at the moment, as Ian Smith, the DWP Minister has just cut housing benefits for disabled and unemployed below the market rent level, so there will be an estimated 250,000 homeless in London alone in the run up to the Olympics 2012! They are building shacks out of crates and living in tents in churchyards in Bristol and London and getting Trussle Trust meals, but Bush and Blair each have 5 homes, despite being war criminals :)
Yep...Reagan started the whole "It's good to be rich....screw everyone else" movement. And Fox news has made some working class idiots side with that thinking. Cults are effective aren't they? An uninformed mind is a DANGEROUS mind.
Hey Bourne, if you are not a millionaire then you are as dumb as you seem in you're comment. WHAT about the last 30 years of repug control gave you ANY clues as to ANYTHING but contempt for the less fortunate???? Name ONE thing repugs did in 40 years to HELP anyone except the rich... I hear crickets. I'm waiting.... ONE THING. This country is only 20 percent wealthy at most...and (rude awakening) but if you aren't rich now...you WON'T be!!! The American dream is a thing of the past.
The video is a little confused - these pictures are not from Hoover's administration. These still pictures are all from the mid to late 1930s... there are NOT Hoovervilles. These are pictures from during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration (the effects of his "New Deal"?)
OK, Liberals are defined by wanting to increase government. What party attracts liberals. Democrats. Hoover tried to use "stimulus" packages to get us out of the depression. Sound familiar?
Hoover makes me sick. That filthy progressive gave money to companies and prolonged the depression. He should have just cut taxes and lowered spending.
Ok how come the most prosperous and most inviting times in American history were under conservative republicans. 1920S. Herbert Hoover was a progressive. Safe to say that he should have been a Democrat.
It truly is a sad day when many unemployed and underemployed Americans, even for a moment, have to ponder the possibility of having to return to such a meager existence. Both political parties have sold working class Americans down the river, and I for one no longer claim to belong to either one.
I didn't realize how much dispute this simple video would incite. My opinion is that we, as Americans, should just wait it out and put our faith in who we have, even if not everyone likes him. Recognize that this recession is expected to be a short-term situation--8 of ten recessions in the past 60 years have lasted fewer than 12 months.
Short term? We have been in a recession for well over 1 1/2 years and it's not even close to being over. We still have banking problems, credit problems, home prices continue to deflate, commercial real estate has only begun to crash, banks aren't lending, soft commodities are inflating, other products are deflating, oil is rising, unemployment is rising..space restricts further comment other than we have a long long way to go here, so get used to higher prices, higher taxes, fewer jobs, etc.
IT's ok to use profanity if it gets your point across. if your an ignoramous like Palin it would sound stupid. I agree Democrats gots problems but some of them are left overs from when you had to be conservative to win elections. not in WA state. The economy will rebound next year. who will be in office when it does, A Democrat president with a Democratic congress. like the other Democratic congresses in th past they will rebound the economy.
Okay by whom? You? Also, you have proven your stupidity with your latest comment and now you can add arrogance to your personal profile. Also, you need a political history lesson. Democratic congresses have a history of growing government and legislating taxing burdens on our economy. Wise up and do some homework. That is great advice for you, but I'll bet you just get more angry when you read this. Peace.
You're right. Hoover was a much more independant thinker. So what is Obama, besides a puppet and minion for international banking cartels... Hmm.. He's a nice guy? A political opportunist who has been nicely groomed to position. He's appears to be a good family man. An eloquent speaker. He is handsome and charismatic. He is hurting the poor and lower economic culture in our country. He show no remorse. He's a consumate liar. All of those statements apply. Space restricts any further.
@BourneAccident George Bush is the real one to blame. Obama needs to clean up the mess he put us through. Hurting the poor in our economy? Yeah right, thats what Bush decided the trickle down effect will work. Gave money to rich people and they kept it instead of letting it trickle down. So don't say your statements apply.
George Bush is/was a useless puppet... just like Obama is a useless puppet... The only difference is that Obama is putting the middle class on the fast track to becoming just as poor as the lower income class... And by the way, Obama is definitely NOT "rebuilding our economy from the ground up"... He has no intention whatsoever of that. He is incapable of that. It is just more lies upon lies. I thought Bush was a liar... Obama's got him beat times ten... Peace.
@BourneAccident To be honest with you i feel like our past president have amounted to much. Haha you have that right they were both liars. Obama said we would be out of that war but he just put more men in! Tisk Tisk...
Bush towns? Bush towns will look like the Taj Mahal Hotels compared to the up and coming Obummervilles. Republicans cause Depressions? The Fed causes depressions. Republicans and democrats are the same.
let me repeat, republicans cause Recessions because your sociopathic racist motherfuckers. you want poor people to stay poor and blacks to have nothing. so how can you create properity when you want everyone who is not rich and white to have anything.
Here are some Republican facts: Republicans don't cause depressions. Republican's suck just like Democrats suck. Republicans don't want poor people to stay poor (the poor stay poor due to their choices in life). Republicans don't want blacks to have nothing. There are many black Republicans. THE PROBLEM IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE. Exchange the word Republican with Federal Reserve and your comments will make sense. And don't use profanity to prove a point. It makes you appear to be stupid.
@BourneAccident Grow up!!! Repugs HATE the poor and working class. STOP watching Fox news!!! I hope you are rich...because if not...you are just stupid!!! Rude awakening coming...and I HOPE then, you get informed...but it will be too late.
(2) The unemployment rate at he start of FDR's 3rd term was higher than at the start of his 1st term. His policies were a total failure in reviving the economy.
We now have Bush/Cheneyvilles or B/Cvilles popping up around the country starting back in November-07 with economic trickle-down/ voo-doo economics of Reagan 10% unemployment (actual near 19-20%) and raided social sec. and daddy Bush. Clinton being a stop gap that slowed down the collapse and left with a budget surplus of $247 billion.
What did Bush leave leave Obama, 2 wars, a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion and not included the cost of the two wars, FEMA emergencies and bank collapses.
So just as it was back in the 20's so it starts again in the 80's as Harding/Reagan, Coolidge/daddy Bush and Hoover/Bush the Idiot.
What didn't send us in a steep decline in just a decade was Roosevelt's social nets and banking laws.
But then comes along Bush on steroids and caused the II Great Depression, a mile high pile of crap on the front door of the White House and problems miles higher, Bush just didn't send America in a ditch but over the cliff.
Bush said the fundamentals of the economy were strong, Mccain said the the fundamentals of the economy were strong and Hoover said the fundamentals of the economy were sound.
Bush said we don't need to get involve with the economy, Hoover said we can ride out this storm and in 1932 after Roosevelt won, Hoover was beggin Roosevelt to join the cabinet meetings up until March 1933 when Roosevelt took over(changing of office up until then was 5 months), imagine if Bush was still in office 2 more!
Thank You For Posting; Obama is the new Herbert Hoover, and his administration is the new Weimar Republic. Look at how Obama is abusing the Military, similar to the Herbert Hoover abuse of the Military.
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We have these springing up all over the UK at the moment, as Ian Smith, the DWP Minister has just cut housing benefits for disabled and unemployed below the market rent level, so there will be an estimated 250,000 homeless in London alone in the run up to the Olympics 2012! They are building shacks out of crates and living in tents in churchyards in Bristol and London and getting Trussle Trust meals, but Bush and Blair each have 5 homes, despite being war criminals :)
iBeep2009 3 months ago
this is us again in 5 years
kds242 4 months ago
it scares me to think we may become this again
gl48911 7 months ago
Yep...Reagan started the whole "It's good to be rich....screw everyone else" movement. And Fox news has made some working class idiots side with that thinking. Cults are effective aren't they? An uninformed mind is a DANGEROUS mind.
dantelabon 1 year ago 3
Hey Bourne, if you are not a millionaire then you are as dumb as you seem in you're comment. WHAT about the last 30 years of repug control gave you ANY clues as to ANYTHING but contempt for the less fortunate???? Name ONE thing repugs did in 40 years to HELP anyone except the rich... I hear crickets. I'm waiting.... ONE THING. This country is only 20 percent wealthy at most...and (rude awakening) but if you aren't rich now...you WON'T be!!! The American dream is a thing of the past.
dantelabon 1 year ago
hoover is a twat and he wouldnt accept responsibility for the gr8 depression i h8 him
olly361 1 year ago
The video is a little confused - these pictures are not from Hoover's administration. These still pictures are all from the mid to late 1930s... there are NOT Hoovervilles. These are pictures from during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration (the effects of his "New Deal"?)
aharonzorea 1 year ago
His description in history books is: a president who felt that relief should be left to the private sector
MikeMM2242 1 year ago
@matthewjames11
OK, Liberals are defined by wanting to increase government. What party attracts liberals. Democrats. Hoover tried to use "stimulus" packages to get us out of the depression. Sound familiar?
MuskratandRatman 1 year ago
Hoover makes me sick. That filthy progressive gave money to companies and prolonged the depression. He should have just cut taxes and lowered spending.
MuskratandRatman 2 years ago
actually no, I can't spare a time because I don't have a dime period.
YankeeTom63 2 years ago
Republican times are hard times.
fishhead06 2 years ago
always.
MrTabby5000 2 years ago
same with demoboma times
majortom321 2 years ago
@fishhead06
Ok how come the most prosperous and most inviting times in American history were under conservative republicans. 1920S. Herbert Hoover was a progressive. Safe to say that he should have been a Democrat.
MuskratandRatman 2 years ago
It truly is a sad day when many unemployed and underemployed Americans, even for a moment, have to ponder the possibility of having to return to such a meager existence. Both political parties have sold working class Americans down the river, and I for one no longer claim to belong to either one.
januarybaby392 2 years ago 6
while the rich get richer.
MrTabby5000 2 years ago
I didn't realize how much dispute this simple video would incite. My opinion is that we, as Americans, should just wait it out and put our faith in who we have, even if not everyone likes him. Recognize that this recession is expected to be a short-term situation--8 of ten recessions in the past 60 years have lasted fewer than 12 months.
Xorou 2 years ago
Short term? We have been in a recession for well over 1 1/2 years and it's not even close to being over. We still have banking problems, credit problems, home prices continue to deflate, commercial real estate has only begun to crash, banks aren't lending, soft commodities are inflating, other products are deflating, oil is rising, unemployment is rising..space restricts further comment other than we have a long long way to go here, so get used to higher prices, higher taxes, fewer jobs, etc.
BourneAccident 2 years ago
IT's ok to use profanity if it gets your point across. if your an ignoramous like Palin it would sound stupid. I agree Democrats gots problems but some of them are left overs from when you had to be conservative to win elections. not in WA state. The economy will rebound next year. who will be in office when it does, A Democrat president with a Democratic congress. like the other Democratic congresses in th past they will rebound the economy.
BrandonSeattle 2 years ago
Okay by whom? You? Also, you have proven your stupidity with your latest comment and now you can add arrogance to your personal profile. Also, you need a political history lesson. Democratic congresses have a history of growing government and legislating taxing burdens on our economy. Wise up and do some homework. That is great advice for you, but I'll bet you just get more angry when you read this. Peace.
BourneAccident 2 years ago
Obama Is no Fucking Herbert Hoover You Dumb ass.
Andycards 2 years ago
You're right. Hoover was a much more independant thinker. So what is Obama, besides a puppet and minion for international banking cartels... Hmm.. He's a nice guy? A political opportunist who has been nicely groomed to position. He's appears to be a good family man. An eloquent speaker. He is handsome and charismatic. He is hurting the poor and lower economic culture in our country. He show no remorse. He's a consumate liar. All of those statements apply. Space restricts any further.
BourneAccident 2 years ago
@BourneAccident George Bush is the real one to blame. Obama needs to clean up the mess he put us through. Hurting the poor in our economy? Yeah right, thats what Bush decided the trickle down effect will work. Gave money to rich people and they kept it instead of letting it trickle down. So don't say your statements apply.
Mrmonk9 2 years ago
George Bush is/was a useless puppet... just like Obama is a useless puppet... The only difference is that Obama is putting the middle class on the fast track to becoming just as poor as the lower income class... And by the way, Obama is definitely NOT "rebuilding our economy from the ground up"... He has no intention whatsoever of that. He is incapable of that. It is just more lies upon lies. I thought Bush was a liar... Obama's got him beat times ten... Peace.
BourneAccident 2 years ago
@BourneAccident To be honest with you i feel like our past president have amounted to much. Haha you have that right they were both liars. Obama said we would be out of that war but he just put more men in! Tisk Tisk...
Mrmonk9 2 years ago
so we need to over throw the politicians because they are corrupt is that what you are saying.
ps: i am not a communist!
kzhang1234 2 years ago
@kzhang1234 not really...but okay! hahaha
Mrmonk9 2 years ago
so politicians are liars and un-trustable. i trust the democrats because of FDR.
kzhang1234 2 years ago
FDR, Wilson, Carter, Obama... all the same progressive crap...
BourneAccident 2 years ago
@BourneAccident
McCain, Hoover.. Filthy progressives. Huckabee Palin 2012!
MuskratandRatman 2 years ago
Gotcha!
BourneAccident 2 years ago
what do you mean bush is an idiot and a big fat liar: example he made a speech under the mission is accomplished when it just started.
kzhang1234 2 years ago
Obama's the one who gave that money to the bankers you idiot.
sovietmarxist 2 years ago
@sovietmarxist because people are not paying back the loans so banks are failing. don't call me an idiot when you don't even understand economics.
Mrmonk9 2 years ago
These new tent cities should be called "Bush towns". Republicans cause Depressions.
BrandonSeattle 2 years ago
Bush towns? Bush towns will look like the Taj Mahal Hotels compared to the up and coming Obummervilles. Republicans cause Depressions? The Fed causes depressions. Republicans and democrats are the same.
BourneAccident 2 years ago
let me repeat, republicans cause Recessions because your sociopathic racist motherfuckers. you want poor people to stay poor and blacks to have nothing. so how can you create properity when you want everyone who is not rich and white to have anything.
BrandonSeattle 2 years ago
Here are some Republican facts: Republicans don't cause depressions. Republican's suck just like Democrats suck. Republicans don't want poor people to stay poor (the poor stay poor due to their choices in life). Republicans don't want blacks to have nothing. There are many black Republicans. THE PROBLEM IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE. Exchange the word Republican with Federal Reserve and your comments will make sense. And don't use profanity to prove a point. It makes you appear to be stupid.
BourneAccident 2 years ago
@BourneAccident Grow up!!! Repugs HATE the poor and working class. STOP watching Fox news!!! I hope you are rich...because if not...you are just stupid!!! Rude awakening coming...and I HOPE then, you get informed...but it will be too late.
dantelabon 1 year ago 2
@dantelabon- I really don't want to call you an idiot, however after reading your comments, it appears to be quite evident.
BourneAccident 1 year ago
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@dantelabon (1) Hoover was a progressive.
(2) The unemployment rate at he start of FDR's 3rd term was higher than at the start of his 1st term. His policies were a total failure in reviving the economy.
johnkess2174 3 months ago
Quite a poignant film for this day and age too.
Excellent production. Thank you.
marktomarketguy 2 years ago
We now have Bush/Cheneyvilles or B/Cvilles popping up around the country starting back in November-07 with economic trickle-down/ voo-doo economics of Reagan 10% unemployment (actual near 19-20%) and raided social sec. and daddy Bush. Clinton being a stop gap that slowed down the collapse and left with a budget surplus of $247 billion.
What did Bush leave leave Obama, 2 wars, a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion and not included the cost of the two wars, FEMA emergencies and bank collapses.
Cashforwardx10 2 years ago 2
So just as it was back in the 20's so it starts again in the 80's as Harding/Reagan, Coolidge/daddy Bush and Hoover/Bush the Idiot.
What didn't send us in a steep decline in just a decade was Roosevelt's social nets and banking laws.
But then comes along Bush on steroids and caused the II Great Depression, a mile high pile of crap on the front door of the White House and problems miles higher, Bush just didn't send America in a ditch but over the cliff.
TREASONIST, CRIMINAL,PROSECUTE!!
Cashforwardx10 2 years ago 2
Bush said the fundamentals of the economy were strong, Mccain said the the fundamentals of the economy were strong and Hoover said the fundamentals of the economy were sound.
Bush said we don't need to get involve with the economy, Hoover said we can ride out this storm and in 1932 after Roosevelt won, Hoover was beggin Roosevelt to join the cabinet meetings up until March 1933 when Roosevelt took over(changing of office up until then was 5 months), imagine if Bush was still in office 2 more!
Cashforwardx10 2 years ago 2
If the collapse had been in October, 2009 instead of September, 2008 we would of had McCain as president just as it was in October, 1929.
Bush tried to keep his finger in the dyke but to many holes and cracks were appearing.
And we have elected our 21st century Roosevelt who is willing to work on the problems instead of ignoring them and pushing them down the road.
Cashforwardx10 2 years ago 2
Thank You For Posting; Obama is the new Herbert Hoover, and his administration is the new Weimar Republic. Look at how Obama is abusing the Military, similar to the Herbert Hoover abuse of the Military.
Cheers!
Valkyrie Ziege Mourne
12Zwolf 2 years ago
it wasnt hoovers fault he helped alot of people
j3r3zana16 2 years ago
I never directly stated that it was his fault...people just needed someone to blame the economic hardships on.
Xorou 2 years ago
Yes.
His family and friends.
makokun9 2 years ago
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recordcastle 3 years ago