Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple

Neuromancer@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple

jimbolauski@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

our entire society is a scam

I’m glad you’re honest about social security and new deal policies. Though I don’t understand why you’d want to double down on them.

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Neuromancer@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

which led to the idealized American past that modern folks pine after, when I didn’t mention them. I don’t think many people idolize the great depression. WW2 ended the great depression.

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Neuromancer@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

TIL. There’s an obvious question though of whether the economic demand of hunting Nazis ended the great depression or some other economic or social policies or a combo of several. We do know the New Deal extended the depression. https://reason.org/commentary/fdr-policies-doubled-the-lengt/#:~:text=Many saw Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) presidency and,policy added 7 years to the Great Depression.

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Neuromancer@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

What sustained us? A common theory I’ve heard is WW2. Most the world had to rebuild from WW2 which gave us many years economic prosperity.

I’m not sure if it’s true. I tend to disagree but I think it may be a valid explanation. We didn’t suffer the loses of Japan, Germany, Russia, etc.

While we lost lives, our country was relatively untouched. Japan occupied parts of Alaska, attacked Oregon a few times but really we didn’t experience the infrastructure losses the other countries did.