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I'm not trying to be mean here, and I would be glad to talk to you about this issue.

Evanibble, you need to do some serious study on the economic policies of Hoover. His policies were interventionist - for example Smoot-Hawley - and not the "hands off" approach of Coolidge. Roosevelt, in 1932, even campaigned on smaller government and to "rein in" the big government policies of Hoover. I know it's part of common knowledge these days that government spending helps the economy but this is the prime example of how false that is. If you map each of Roosevelt's programs to how the economy responded - unemployment, quarterly growth, etc - you will see the thesis of liberalism disproven. Government intervention failed. To make it even more demonstrable, after WW II the U.S. was right back in economic problems left over from the Depression. 1946-1949 were not good economically. By the way, all the previous panics of the 19th century - 1837, 1852, 1873, 1893 - were all far shorter with a governmental hands off approach than the the Crash of '29 and Crash of 2008 were with a majorly "hands on" approach. And I would further argue that the recovery we have had so far has only been because Obama stopped doing what he did in 2009 - 2010 by the time 2012 rolled around and has been put in check since. As a former Democrat who use to make arguments like the one you're making regarding 1932 and government intervention, I should know. When you look at the data seriously, you cannot prove government intervention in the economy works but you can prove it is harmful. This has been done many times despite what Paul Krugman says.

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By the way, we WERE turning the corner.

+EvanibbleVisual aids would make it more interesting, just don't over do it. Your videos made me seem like I was the smartest teen in my school. We are talking about WWII and she mentioned about the U.S. trading war ships for Naval bases and I said "For the Caribbean and Newfoundland bases." she said very good. My teacher was SUPER impressed. I told her about you after class and she asked me how I found you, I said "just roaming YouTube". But in reality I got bored and looked up men in heels, then I found your video and have been stuck with you since.

WOW. I definitely appreciate that. However, keep in mind all I do is lecture, I don't have many visual aids or anything else in my videos (which is something that I should work on). But again, thank you!