no, Terrye, Smoot-Hawley did not cause the Great Depression, as Buchanan and others elaborate on here in this Conservative magazine.

Most of those jobs were lost to technology not outsourcing. Anyone who thinks the big factories of the 70′s are coming back is an idiot. And by the way, if the American auto makers would try selling something other than $55,000 pickups they might not need protectionists to save them from the competition.

Speaking of the Great Depression, it was protectionist legislation that kicked it off.

Too bad the media doesn’t have the same regulations as their b.s. can be just as damaging if not more so.

The antique media have become rogues, imho. And this depressions talk only helps the markets…hehehe.

The point is that free trade/outsourcing are destroying America
economically and security-wise, outlined in the americaneconomicalert piece. Also here that Hillary can’t be trusted,as she has lied about opposing outsourcing when actually enthusiastically supporting it.

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Make no mistake. The liberals are trying to make this “depression or recession” come true. Their investors like George Soros and his ilk have been saying the stock market is failing. They want people to get scared and stop buying which would effectively cause at least a recession. They cannot stand it that the economy is so good. The thing that is not good is the gas prices. When they go up so does everything else. And whose fault is that? Why do the democrats stop us from drilling for oil in this country and building more refineries? The only thing I can think of is they are all in the Saudis’ pocket and are as crooked as can be.

Is that happening now? Well, in Colorado the farmers had to use penal labor to work the fields because the migrants stopped coming and the locals refused to do the work…at any pay.

My Dad’s people lost a great deal of their land, but held onto the homeplace. However, they did not buy coffee or sugar or shoes for years and there were times when they sweat coming up with the few dollars they had to have for taxes.

My inlaws were in Ohio at that time, in Cincinnati. My father in law talked about kids jumping on coal trains and throwing the coal off for other kids who picked it up and put it in wagons to take home so that they would not freeze to death. There was no work, there was very little relief of any kind. There was no money.

I think that gas prices have stressed people, especially those close to the edge anyway and many of them might be using food stamps to offset the increase in those prices. But we should also remember that there are more people in the country than there were in the 1960′s and so it goes without saying that more people will need help. It only makes sense.

But this is not the Great Depression. Most people today think they are doing without if they can not afford cable.