That wasn't "we" (well, maybe you were alive back then, but I wasn't) or everybody.
It was 20%.

That wouldn't be enough. You have toactually put your braininto a negative intellect mode (which most liberals can do without even thinking, but conservatives gotta work at it)

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

When Roosevelt intitued the New Deal, there was a period of decreased rate of collapse, but then that bill had to be paid and that was when things got really bad.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

Roosevelt at first didn't have as aggressive a plan to stimulate jobs, save people from starving in vast numbers, and prevent the total collapse of our civilization. He tried some stop gaps then when things weren't getting any better, actually a lot worse he fired the old guy and brought in a new one and a new plan. That plan saved lives and created jobs, It also taught us we needed a safety net for old people. that brought about Social Security.
The Bush administration and the Obama administration studied the Great Depression to avoid such happening in the present day. I believe they both will be given credit for saving our azz whether you guys give them immediate points or not.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-George Santayana

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
-Winston Churchill

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Hell hath no fury like a right-winger without facts.

I just figured out who Mr Reid reminds me of.
It's this guy,

But none of it worked in the long term. The GD was only stopped by the neccessity of WWII forcing the gov't to put money back into the hands of private enterprise. Why does that glaring fact escape you?? If these programs had worked, the country would have recovered to the point where ti didn't need these programs, but that didn't happen until these programs were made unneccesary by the demands of the war economy putting money back into the hands of private enterprise.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold