Ben Selvin Happy Days Are Here Again 1930

The great depression hit the US (and soon most of the rest of the world) with sickening speed in 1929. Lives were turned upside down as unemployment soared to 35% and the good times and prosperity of the 1920s were lost to generations. Deja vu.
Politicians were certainly premature in telling voters in 1930 that prosperity was just around the corner. By 1933, the situation had grown even worse thanks to inept politicians. The US wouldn't lose its "depression" until the 1940s when WWII caused a huge uptick in unemployment as the war machine revved up. Throughout the 1930s, popular music and movies continued to depict optimism and better days as those who could afford a movie ticket or record sought a brief few minutes of escapism from their mundane and boring lives, a hard pill to swallow after living in the roaring 20s.

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[HarborGuy]

My mom was newly married in l929 - it wasn't easy. She never trusted a bank until the day she died. She got one cent back on a dollar of $500. a hughe amount in l929. Here it is 2009 and we are headed right back to Hell.........

[preservationhall01]

Your mother's story was told a million times. Amen to your comment.

[dancingwithfrogs]

Yeah, those days are back again :-(

[TheOldcardave]

elbow321:You are the "stupid idiot" here, and I might say you sound like a young punk as well, when you say buying foreign products because American products cost more because of paying the American worker a living wage is bad for the capitalist slave market. You haven't seen what it was like during the fifties when more Americans were unionized, buying American products and the economy was doing quite well... Now I didn't start the name calling, you did "STUPID" one!

[elbow321]

@TheOldcardave "Honest" has nothing to do with it. If the pay rate is higher than the foreigner's the American car (example) will cost more than the foreign one and Americans (on average) including you won't buy it.

"Honest" sounds good but is irrelevant to the American shopper when he's looking at prices. But explaining economics to a union idiot like you is a waste of time because you're all too stupid

[elbow321]

@muscleco He started the shit with social security and creating the Cold War by giving Eastern Europe to Stalin -- you moron

[TheOldcardave]

@elbow321 You have it all wrong pal, Union members are only asking for an Honest days pay, for and honest day's work, and most employers don't have a problem with that. What's going to bring down this country is GREED, not the need or the working class.

[elbow321]

@TheOldcardave yeah spongers like you love union arm twisting for unearned benefits

[muscleco]

Lord, we all need you now FDR!

[TheOldcardave]

My Happy days were before Ronald Reagan and his Union busting began. That was the turnaround, that was war on the middle class. And by the way, what put B.H.O. in office was G.W.B. and his stupid wars, and ideals.

[reaganomicchris]

@royalewihcheese

It's pro-conservative; the Republican party is extremely broad compared to the Democratic party. It's a Democratic party video. FDR and big government taking care of everyone, even after the Fed. and the central bank spread panic and caused the Great Depression. Progressives can go to Greece for all I care, they'll ruin themselves (and, in an unlikely case, the country) anyway.

[reaganomicchris]

@curleyQ01

I know, right? I want Newt, too. I'm on the fence between Libertarian and Conservative, so Newt is perfect! Not to mention he has the most experience of anyone of any kind (he's a better business person than Cain; he founded the Gingrich Group and tons of others which are now extremely profitable, and I hold a few of his stocks now anyway :)) And he does the best in the debates. Could you imagine a Newt-Obama debate?However, if BO gets reelected, this country doesn't deserve Newt.

[curleyQ01]

@reaganomicchris Paul is too far off the charts for me. I'd like to see someone who will actually govern the way Reagan did, ie. a Newt or a Cain.