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Ask the Politially Correct!
Question?
What was FDR's Second New Deal?
Politically Correct Resolution:
During the depression years while the United States had a 25%
unemployment rate, the government was paying the larger farmers
not to grow crops to creat a world wide demand for agricultural
products. While many Americans were starving, the international
financial community was investing in Germany's (Nazi) rearmament.
In fact one of the investors, Henry Ford, was instrumental in
having a factory in Germany that built tanks for the Nazi's.
In the 1930's while Americans starved, the German people,
under Hitler, with Investments (seed money) from the international
financial community suffered little from the Depression years.
The "second" New Deal (1935-40s) aimed at restoring the economy
from the bottom up (History 1302)!
The "second" New Deal attempted to end the Depression by spending
at the bottom of the economy where government funds attempted to
turn non-consumers into consumers again. Many of the programs lasted
only until World War II while others became permanent fixtures in
American life. The Works Progress Administration was a huge
federal jobs program that sought to hire unemployed breadwinners for
the purpose of strengthening their family's well-being as well as boosting
consumer demand. The jobs varied but consisted of mainly of construction
of public roads, buildings and parks. Over the course of its
life (1935-43) over eight million Americans worked on WPA projects.
This was "counter-cyclical demand management" on a huge scale.
The 1935 Social Security Act set
up a modest worker-funded but federally-guaranteed pension system. Not
on the princely scale that had had advocated, nevertheless, Social
Security (at the time) did act as a safety net for a few older workers,
promoted increased some consumer demand and earned a place as a fixture on
the American political and social landscape.
Finally, another significant component of the "second" New Deal was the
National Labor Relations Act of 1935. Usually called the Wagner Act after
its sponsor, Senator Robert Wagner of New York, this law attempted to prevent
employer's use of intimidation and coercion in breaking up unions. It set
up the National Labor Relations Board to guarantee the right of collective
bargaining for American workers. The results were immediately discernable:
the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations whose auto worker
and coal miner units soon saw their wages increase significantly. Again,
higher wages among the masses of the working class is an example of the
"second" New Deal's attempt to restore the economy from the bottom up.
Assessing the legacy
World War II ended both the temporary New Deal programs and the Depression
they were attempting to cure. Keep in mind that many facets of the New
Deal--Social Security, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the
Securities and Exchange Commission to name only three--have remained
in American life from the 1930s until the present.
War ended the Depression simply because of increased government spending,
an intensified version of what Roosevelt was already doing with the WPA
and similar programs.. Responding to the external threats posed by the
Axis Powers (Germany, Japan and Italy) Roosevelt and the Congress threw
fiscal caution to the wind and spent what was necessary to win the war.
In so doing, they also achieved pre-Depression levels of employment and
prosperity.
What then is the legacy of the New Deal as a whole? Would it have ended
the Depression? The best answer to that is that it went a long way toward
alleviating the worst suffering of the Depression while still being captive
to the conventional thinking (political, fiscal, racial) of the day. One
cannot answer the question of whether it could have ended the Depression
based on historical facts. World War II interrupted the process.
What are the other long-term consequences of the Depression and New Deal?
The rise of the "Roosevelt Coalition" of farmers, union members, working
class people, Northern blacks and liberals made the Democratic Party the
nation's dominant party for almost sixty years. Further, the political
consensus that developed after World War II held that never again should
the government allow another depression to take hold. Thus, there followed
an unprecedented level of federal economic intervention. This huge
expansion in the role, size and power of government in American social
and economic life is aptly summed up in Republican President Richard Nixon's
famous 1971 remark, "We're all Keynesians now." (History 1302)
Basically the "Keynesians Theory" was spend your way to prosperity. The
same theory that is being used today! It didn't work then and it won't
work now! That is, if the special interests are allowed to get their
sticky fingers in what is left of the "American Pie"!
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer to don't
think"! (Adolf Hitler)
"MEMORES ACTI PRUDENTES FUTURI"
(Mindful of what has been done, aware of what will be)
Ask the Politially Correct!
Question?
What was FDR's Second New Deal?
Politically Correct Resolution:
During the depression years while the United States had a 25%
unemployment rate, the government was paying the larger farmers
not to grow crops to creat a world wide demand for agricultural
products. While many Americans were starving, the international
financial community was investing in Germany's (Nazi) rearmament.
In fact one of the investors, Henry Ford, was instrumental in
having a factory in Germany that built tanks for the Nazi's.
In the 1930's while Americans starved, the German people,
under Hitler, with Investments (seed money) from the international
financial community suffered little from the Depression years.
The "second" New Deal (1935-40s) aimed at restoring the economy
from the bottom up (History 1302)!
The "second" New Deal attempted to end the Depression by spending
at the bottom of the economy where government funds attempted to
turn non-consumers into consumers again. Many of the programs lasted
only until World War II while others became permanent fixtures in
American life. The Works Progress Administration was a huge
federal jobs program that sought to hire unemployed breadwinners for
the purpose of strengthening their family's well-being as well as boosting
consumer demand. The jobs varied but consisted of mainly of construction
of public roads, buildings and parks. Over the course of its
life (1935-43) over eight million Americans worked on WPA projects.
This was "counter-cyclical demand management" on a huge scale.
The 1935 Social Security Act set
up a modest worker-funded but federally-guaranteed pension system. Not
on the princely scale that had had advocated, nevertheless, Social
Security (at the time) did act as a safety net for a few older workers,
promoted increased some consumer demand and earned a place as a fixture on
the American political and social landscape.
Finally, another significant component of the "second" New Deal was the
National Labor Relations Act of 1935. Usually called the Wagner Act after
its sponsor, Senator Robert Wagner of New York, this law attempted to prevent
employer's use of intimidation and coercion in breaking up unions. It set
up the National Labor Relations Board to guarantee the right of collective
bargaining for American workers. The results were immediately discernable:
the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations whose auto worker
and coal miner units soon saw their wages increase significantly. Again,
higher wages among the masses of the working class is an example of the
"second" New Deal's attempt to restore the economy from the bottom up.
Assessing the legacy
World War II ended both the temporary New Deal programs and the Depression
they were attempting to cure. Keep in mind that many facets of the New
Deal--Social Security, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the
Securities and Exchange Commission to name only three--have remained
in American life from the 1930s until the present.
War ended the Depression simply because of increased government spending,
an intensified version of what Roosevelt was already doing with the WPA
and similar programs.. Responding to the external threats posed by the
Axis Powers (Germany, Japan and Italy) Roosevelt and the Congress threw
fiscal caution to the wind and spent what was necessary to win the war.
In so doing, they also achieved pre-Depression levels of employment and
prosperity.
What then is the legacy of the New Deal as a whole? Would it have ended
the Depression? The best answer to that is that it went a long way toward
alleviating the worst suffering of the Depression while still being captive
to the conventional thinking (political, fiscal, racial) of the day. One
cannot answer the question of whether it could have ended the Depression
based on historical facts. World War II interrupted the process.
What are the other long-term consequences of the Depression and New Deal?
The rise of the "Roosevelt Coalition" of farmers, union members, working
class people, Northern blacks and liberals made the Democratic Party the
nation's dominant party for almost sixty years. Further, the political
consensus that developed after World War II held that never again should
the government allow another depression to take hold. Thus, there followed
an unprecedented level of federal economic intervention. This huge
expansion in the role, size and power of government in American social
and economic life is aptly summed up in Republican President Richard Nixon's
famous 1971 remark, "We're all Keynesians now." (History 1302)
Basically the "Keynesians Theory" was spend your way to prosperity. The
same theory that is being used today! It didn't work then and it won't
work now! That is, if the special interests are allowed to get their
sticky fingers in what is left of the "American Pie"!
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer to don't
think"! (Adolf Hitler)
"MEMORES ACTI PRUDENTES FUTURI"
(Mindful of what has been done, aware of what will be)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was "Born to the Manor" on his
Family's Pantation! He was provided everything he ever wanted!
There are two types of Plantation Owners, malevolent or
benevolent. The malevolent owner physically and mentally
abuses his slaves, while the benevolent owner takes care
of his slaves by providing them with food, clothing and
shelter. By doing so, the benevolent plantation owner's
slaves are not apt to run away and they are a lot more
contented (dependent upon him for all their needs). As a
member of the Plantation Owner's Association (Fictional),
FDR was elected to be their representative in 1932.
Ask the Politically Correct!
Question?
What was FDR's First New Deal during the Great Depression?
Politically Correct Resolution:
The "First" New Deal (1933-35) aimed at restoring the economy
from the "top down" (trickle down - hmmm, sounds familiar)
(History 1302)
FDR remained vague while running for President in 1931.
He promised if he was elected, that under his presidency,
government would act decisively to end the depression.
Once he was elected, he said yes to every plan Wall Street
came up with. The Congress approved every proposal that
FDR presented to them.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), passed in
1933, accepted the long-held premise that low farm
prices resulted from overproduction. Thus, the
government sought to stimulate increased farm prices
by paying farmers to produce less. While the original
AAA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court,
a new act correcting for the Court's concerns was passed
in 1935. Critics pointed out the irony of reducing food
production in a society where children already went hungry.
Of course, those children's hunger did not represent "demand "
in the marketplace. Indeed there were agricultural surpluses;
as usual, the problem of the American farm was demand and
distribution, not supply. "Acreage allotment" (the backbone
of the crop reduction program) helped the largest and best
capitalized farmers. It did little for smaller farmers and
led to the eviction and homelessness of tenants and sharecroppers
whose landlords hardly needed their services under a system that
paid them to grow less. Further, it failed to address the
fundamental problem of the Depression: weak consumer demand due
to falling wages and unemployment. In the long run the effect of
the AAA was beneficial to large operators.
The 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) set up the New
Deal's fundamental strategy of centralized planning as a means
of combating the Depression. Industrial sectors were encouraged
to avoid "cutthroat competition" (selling below cost to attract
dwindling customers and drive weaker competitors out of business)
which may have been good for individual businesses in the short-run,
but resulted in increased unemployment and an even smaller customer
pool in the long-run. The government temporarily suspended
enforcement of anti-monopoly laws and sponsored what amounted to
price-fixing as an emergency measure. Similar efforts were made
to stabilize wages within industries as well. Again, the basic
problem left unanswered was "overall weak consumer demand". The
NIRA did address this in a limited way with the Public Works
Administration which funded various public employment schemes;
however, the number of jobs created by the PWA were miniscule
compared to the number of jobless workers.
The "First" New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) reflected
the future liberal methods of the "Second" New Deal. The TVA (1933)
provided millions of dollars to transform the economies of seven
depressed, rural Southern states along the Tennessee River. The
program included dam-building, electric power-generation, flood
and erosion control. It provided relatively high-wage jobs in
construction in a region the president called "the nation's number
one economic problem." Critics saw creeping socialism in this
venture; liberals saw it as a successful example of government
solving social and economic problems.
The Politics of Right and Left push and pull FDR toward
the Left
The right-wing of American politics convinced Roosevelt
he had nothing to lose on that end of the spectrum.
Chief among his critics on the right was the Liberty
League, a speaker's bureau funded by the Du Pont family
and other business interests. The League leadership
sought to fuse a partnership between the segregationist
governor of Georgia Eugene Talmadge and other conservative
leaders to create a grassroots opposition to the New Deal.
Liberty League speakers toured the country accusing Roosevelt
of instituting creeping socialism.
Right-wing radio personality Father Charles Coughlin
denounced recipients of government assistance and claimed
the New Deal led the country toward a Communist dictatorship.
(He suggested Nazi Germany would prove to be America's correct
model) and blamed the Depression on a Jewish conspiracy (when there's
a lingering doubt give the Jews a clout). At the height of his
popularity millions of Americans listened to his radio sermons
each week.
This was a prime example of how the media of the time was used
to propagandize the minds of the people to fulfill an agenda.
(in this case it was right wing propaganda).
The Liberty League convinced Roosevelt that he had lost any hope
of support from the business right and Coughlin's popularity
convinced him that people must be suffering indeed to listen
to such rhetoric. In a sense, both the Liberty League and
Coughlin (for different reasons) pushed FDR further to the left.
Roosevelt was pulled toward the left by both the traditional Left
(The Socialist Party of America) and the unconventional left
(Dr. Francis Townshend and Sen. Huey P. Long of Louisiana).
In 1932 the Socialists' presidential candidate Norman Thomas had
tripled his 1928 showing as hard times rejuvenated the Socialist
critique of the system. Nobody thought Thomas posed an electoral
threat to FDR; the president was sensitive, however, to the
Socialists' rising popularity.
Dr. Francis Townsend, a California physician, argued in favor of
a federally-funded old-age pension as a means of ending the Depression.
He argued that turning the nation's elderly population into robust
consumers would solve the underlying problem of weak demand. Dr.
Townsend's clubs began springing up across the country as his message
of care for the elderly meshed with people's desire for a rapid end
to the Depression.
The colorful senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long, joined Roosevelt's
critics on the left with his "Share Our Wealth" plan. Long proposed
a guaranteed household income for each American family paid for by high
taxes on the wealthiest Americans. Long's rising popularity (before his
assassination in 1935) further demonstrated to FDR the discontent of the
people. Convinced that Americans were suffering more than he had
realized and believing he had already forfeited the support of the
business right, FDR headed left in the "second" New Deal.
(History 1302)
Now we know where the phrase "I was for it before I was against it"
originally came from after FDR stuck his finger in the air to see
which way the political wind was blowing.
Make no mistake about it, the Wall Street (International) Bankers were/are
playing both sides (Left and Right) against the middle!
"NOVUS GLOBUS FUNDA"
(New Global Foundation (Plantation))
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was "Born to the Manor" on his
Family's Pantation! He was provided everything he ever wanted!
There are two types of Plantation Owners, malevolent or
benevolent. The malevolent owner physically and mentally
abuses his slaves, while the benevolent owner takes care
of his slaves by providing them with food, clothing and
shelter. By doing so, the benevolent plantation owner's
slaves are not apt to run away and they are a lot more
contented (dependent upon him for all their needs). As a
member of the Plantation Owner's Association (Fictional),
FDR was elected to be their representative in 1932.
Ask the Politically Correct!
Question?
What was FDR's First New Deal during the Great Depression?
Politically Correct Resolution:
The "First" New Deal (1933-35) aimed at restoring the economy
from the "top down" (trickle down - hmmm, sounds familiar)
(History 1302)
FDR remained vague while running for President in 1931.
He promised if he was elected, that under his presidency,
government would act decisively to end the depression.
Once he was elected, he said yes to every plan Wall Street
came up with. The Congress approved every proposal that
FDR presented to them.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), passed in
1933, accepted the long-held premise that low farm
prices resulted from overproduction. Thus, the
government sought to stimulate increased farm prices
by paying farmers to produce less. While the original
AAA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court,
a new act correcting for the Court's concerns was passed
in 1935. Critics pointed out the irony of reducing food
production in a society where children already went hungry.
Of course, those children's hunger did not represent "demand "
in the marketplace. Indeed there were agricultural surpluses;
as usual, the problem of the American farm was demand and
distribution, not supply. "Acreage allotment" (the backbone
of the crop reduction program) helped the largest and best
capitalized farmers. It did little for smaller farmers and
led to the eviction and homelessness of tenants and sharecroppers
whose landlords hardly needed their services under a system that
paid them to grow less. Further, it failed to address the
fundamental problem of the Depression: weak consumer demand due
to falling wages and unemployment. In the long run the effect of
the AAA was beneficial to large operators.
The 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) set up the New
Deal's fundamental strategy of centralized planning as a means
of combating the Depression. Industrial sectors were encouraged
to avoid "cutthroat competition" (selling below cost to attract
dwindling customers and drive weaker competitors out of business)
which may have been good for individual businesses in the short-run,
but resulted in increased unemployment and an even smaller customer
pool in the long-run. The government temporarily suspended
enforcement of anti-monopoly laws and sponsored what amounted to
price-fixing as an emergency measure. Similar efforts were made
to stabilize wages within industries as well. Again, the basic
problem left unanswered was "overall weak consumer demand". The
NIRA did address this in a limited way with the Public Works
Administration which funded various public employment schemes;
however, the number of jobs created by the PWA were miniscule
compared to the number of jobless workers.
The "First" New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) reflected
the future liberal methods of the "Second" New Deal. The TVA (1933)
provided millions of dollars to transform the economies of seven
depressed, rural Southern states along the Tennessee River. The
program included dam-building, electric power-generation, flood
and erosion control. It provided relatively high-wage jobs in
construction in a region the president called "the nation's number
one economic problem." Critics saw creeping socialism in this
venture; liberals saw it as a successful example of government
solving social and economic problems.
The Politics of Right and Left push and pull FDR toward
the Left
The right-wing of American politics convinced Roosevelt
he had nothing to lose on that end of the spectrum.
Chief among his critics on the right was the Liberty
League, a speaker's bureau funded by the Du Pont family
and other business interests. The League leadership
sought to fuse a partnership between the segregationist
governor of Georgia Eugene Talmadge and other conservative
leaders to create a grassroots opposition to the New Deal.
Liberty League speakers toured the country accusing Roosevelt
of instituting creeping socialism.
Right-wing radio personality Father Charles Coughlin
denounced recipients of government assistance and claimed
the New Deal led the country toward a Communist dictatorship.
(He suggested Nazi Germany would prove to be America's correct
model) and blamed the Depression on a Jewish conspiracy (when there's
a lingering doubt give the Jews a clout). At the height of his
popularity millions of Americans listened to his radio sermons
each week.
This was a prime example of how the media of the time was used
to propagandize the minds of the people to fulfill an agenda.
(in this case it was right wing propaganda).
The Liberty League convinced Roosevelt that he had lost any hope
of support from the business right and Coughlin's popularity
convinced him that people must be suffering indeed to listen
to such rhetoric. In a sense, both the Liberty League and
Coughlin (for different reasons) pushed FDR further to the left.
Roosevelt was pulled toward the left by both the traditional Left
(The Socialist Party of America) and the unconventional left
(Dr. Francis Townshend and Sen. Huey P. Long of Louisiana).
In 1932 the Socialists' presidential candidate Norman Thomas had
tripled his 1928 showing as hard times rejuvenated the Socialist
critique of the system. Nobody thought Thomas posed an electoral
threat to FDR; the president was sensitive, however, to the
Socialists' rising popularity.
Dr. Francis Townsend, a California physician, argued in favor of
a federally-funded old-age pension as a means of ending the Depression.
He argued that turning the nation's elderly population into robust
consumers would solve the underlying problem of weak demand. Dr.
Townsend's clubs began springing up across the country as his message
of care for the elderly meshed with people's desire for a rapid end
to the Depression.
The colorful senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long, joined Roosevelt's
critics on the left with his "Share Our Wealth" plan. Long proposed
a guaranteed household income for each American family paid for by high
taxes on the wealthiest Americans. Long's rising popularity (before his
assassination in 1935) further demonstrated to FDR the discontent of the
people. Convinced that Americans were suffering more than he had
realized and believing he had already forfeited the support of the
business right, FDR headed left in the "second" New Deal.
(History 1302)
Now we know where the phrase "I was for it before I was against it"
originally came from after FDR stuck his finger in the air to see
which way the political wind was blowing.
Make no mistake about it, the Wall Street (International) Bankers were/are
playing both sides (Left and Right) against the middle!
"NOVUS GLOBUS FUNDA"
(New Global Foundation (Plantation))
World War One (Part of the First Age of Globalization -
1890 to l918) (Second age, 1919 to 1945) (Third age, 1946 to
present), in my opinion, was a planned conflict waiting
for a reason to happen. The reason used was the assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The real reason
for this war was the growth of "Nationalism" across
Europe, making it impossible to creat a European Union
and a Global governing power, like Woodrow Wilson's
League of Nations! (You know, that "One World Order"
thing). The United States wasn't coerced into World
War One by Wall Street and our paid for government
because of any humanitary reasons, but for Political Economic
reasons (Globalization)!
Swampyville's - Ask the Politically Correct!
Question:
What was World War One?
Politically Correct Resolution:
World War I (WWI), which was called the World War
or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939 (beginning
of World War Two), and the First World War or World War I
thereafter, was a major war centered in Europe that began on
28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
Eventually, It involved all the world's great powers,
which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies
and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military
personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were
mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More
than 9 million combatants were killed. This war became
one of attrition rather than for territory for both
sides (Leaders) resorted to "Trench Warfare" and never
really wanted to gain any ground.
European Unionism was spawned by the war with the breakup
of the empires, the repercussions of Germany's defeat,
and the failure of Woodrow Wilson's "League of Nations"
(with one nation refusing to join who wanted to remain
a protectionist nation - The United States) and
problems with the Treaty of Versailles are generally
agreed to be main factors in the beginning of "World War (Two)".
(In fact Woodrow Wilson prophethised?, "if his League of Nations
failed to be realized that there would be a World War (Two)
within twenty years"). Woodrow Wilson in his first term
promised the American people that he would never send
their sons into a foreign war and use this same theme
to get reelected for his second term. Immediately after
he began his second term, he persuaded Congress to declare war
on the central powers, thus plunging the U.S.into World war
One. The U.S. Congress delared war on Germany on April 6,
1917 and the Selective Service Act was passed on May 18,
1917. The Selective Service Act was for men to go to
World War One at a young age and many never returned.
A generation of innocent young men, their heads full of
high expectations like Honour, Glory and Nation, went
off to war "to make the world safe for Democracy/the war
to end all wars" (Woodrow Wilson's words). They were slaughtered
in stupid battles planned by avariced people. Those who survived
were shocked, disillusioned and embittered by their war experiences,
and saw that their real enemy was not those that they were engaging,
but the financial interests/government at home who had lied to them.
They rejected the values of the society that had sent them
to war, a war that attempted to separate their own past
generations to one of a future New One World Order (Globalization)!
In that the First World War didn't accomplish the internationalist's
goals, a Second World War became necessary!
The World's financial interests have a simple formula for war -
D R = P (Destruction plus Reconstruction equals Profits)!
Many of The Financial interests that financed the Central Powers
also financed the Allied Powers to wage this war. After the war,
these same financial interests also financed the reconstruction
of Europe, although there was little damage done. All for a
huge profit! Germany finally paid off their reparations (most
for the costs of waging war) for world war one to the United
States financial interests/government in 1988.
Unfortunately for Wall Street and the U.S. Government, the United
States remained a protectionist nation and it took a Second World
war (with a severe depression between the two world wars thrown in)
to change this fact!
All of you die hard liberals and conservatives prove me wrong
without using propagandized party line talking points, they
have become trite to many of us!
"SI AL PRINCIPIO TIENES EXITO, INTENTALO, INTENTALO E
ENTENTALO DE NUEVO"! (If at first you don't succeed,
try, try and try again)
World War One (Part of the First Age of Globalization -
1890 to l918) (Second age, 1919 to 1945) (Third age, 1946 to
present), in my opinion, was a planned conflict waiting
for a reason to happen. The reason used was the assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The real reason
for this war was the growth of "Nationalism" across
Europe, making it impossible to creat a European Union
and a Global governing power, like Woodrow Wilson's
League of Nations! (You know, that "One World Order"
thing). The United States wasn't coerced into World
War One by Wall Street and our paid for government
because of any humanitary reasons, but for Political Economic
reasons (Globalization)!
Swampyville's - Ask the Politically Correct!
Question:
What was World War One?
Politically Correct Resolution:
World War I (WWI), which was called the World War
or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939 (beginning
of World War Two), and the First World War or World War I
thereafter, was a major war centered in Europe that began on
28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
Eventually, It involved all the world's great powers,
which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies
and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military
personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were
mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More
than 9 million combatants were killed. This war became
one of attrition rather than for territory for both
sides (Leaders) resorted to "Trench Warfare" and never
really wanted to gain any ground.
European Unionism was spawned by the war with the breakup
of the empires, the repercussions of Germany's defeat,
and the failure of Woodrow Wilson's "League of Nations"
(with one nation refusing to join who wanted to remain
a protectionist nation - The United States) and
problems with the Treaty of Versailles are generally
agreed to be main factors in the beginning of "World War (Two)".
(In fact Woodrow Wilson prophethised?, "if his League of Nations
failed to be realized that there would be a World War (Two)
within twenty years"). Woodrow Wilson in his first term
promised the American people that he would never send
their sons into a foreign war and use this same theme
to get reelected for his second term. Immediately after
he began his second term, he persuaded Congress to declare war
on the central powers, thus plunging the U.S.into World war
One. The U.S. Congress delared war on Germany on April 6,
1917 and the Selective Service Act was passed on May 18,
1917. The Selective Service Act was for men to go to
World War One at a young age and many never returned.
A generation of innocent young men, their heads full of
high expectations like Honour, Glory and Nation, went
off to war "to make the world safe for Democracy/the war
to end all wars" (Woodrow Wilson's words). They were slaughtered
in stupid battles planned by avariced people. Those who survived
were shocked, disillusioned and embittered by their war experiences,
and saw that their real enemy was not those that they were engaging,
but the financial interests/government at home who had lied to them.
They rejected the values of the society that had sent them
to war, a war that attempted to separate their own past
generations to one of a future New One World Order (Globalization)!
In that the First World War didn't accomplish the internationalist's
goals, a Second World War became necessary!
The World's financial interests have a simple formula for war -
D R = P (Destruction plus Reconstruction equals Profits)!
Many of The Financial interests that financed the Central Powers
also financed the Allied Powers to wage this war. After the war,
these same financial interests also financed the reconstruction
of Europe, although there was little damage done. All for a
huge profit! Germany finally paid off their reparations (most
for the costs of waging war) for world war one to the United
States financial interests/government in 1988.
Unfortunately for Wall Street and the U.S. Government, the United
States remained a protectionist nation and it took a Second World
war (with a severe depression between the two world wars thrown in)
to change this fact!
All of you die hard liberals and conservatives prove me wrong
without using propagandized party line talking points, they
have become trite to many of us!
"SI AL PRINCIPIO TIENES EXITO, INTENTALO, INTENTALO E
ENTENTALO DE NUEVO"! (If at first you don't succeed,
try, try and try again)
Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!
Question:
What was the Spanish/American War?
Politically Correct Resolution:
At the ending of the nineteenth century the United State's was a
sovereign nation that wanted to maintain this status. It was
the internationalists that called it an "Isolationist" nation,
because it didn't want to get involved in overseas conflicts.
The Spanish/American War.
(Global Building)
(Wikipedia used for most of this article)
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the
United States. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for
decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had
been war scares before. By 1897–98 American public opinion grew angrier
at reports of Spanish atrocities, magnified by "yellow journalism". After
the mysterious sinking of the American battleship Maine (the Catalyst) in
Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the
government headed by President William McKinley, a Republican, into a
war McKinley had wished to avoid. Compromise proved impossible, resulting
in an ultimatum sent to Madrid, which was not accepted. First Madrid,
then Washington, formally declared war.
Although the main issue was Cuban independence, the ten-week war was
fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. A series of one-sided
American naval and military victories followed on all fronts, owing
to their numerical superiority in most of the battles and despite the
good performance of some of the Spanish infantry units. The outcome
was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which was favorable to the U.S. followed
by temporary American control of Cuba and indefinite colonial authority
over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The defeat and subsequent
end of the Spanish Empire was a profound shock for Spain's national
psyche. The victor gained several island possessions spanning the
globe and a rancorous new debate over the wisdom of imperialism.
Thus, (the United States gained there much wanted warm water ports
to extend their World Wide influences).
American interest in Caribbean
In 1823, the Monroe Doctrine stated that further efforts by
European governments to colonize land or interfere with states
in the Americas would not be accepted by the U.S., but Spain's
colony in Cuba was exempted. In 1890 Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which credits the
rise of Britain to world power to the Royal Navy. Mahan’s ideas
on projecting strength through a strong navy had a powerful
worldwide influence, especially Japan. Theodore Roosevelt, later
Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley and an
aggressive supporter of a war with Spain over Cuba, was also strongly
influenced by Mahan’s conclusions. Americans had long been interested
in Cuba (and Hawaii), since several U.S. presidents offered to purchase
it from Spain (James Polk, Franklin Pierce and Ulysses S. Grant),
and others expressed their hopes of future annexation.
Historians debate how much Americans were interested in obtaining
an empire, while noting that the European powers had in recent
decades dramatically expanded their empires, especially in Africa
and Asia. The United States seized this opportunity to become
an international empire themselves.
Thus, began the "gradual transformation" of the United States from
one of isolationism to one of internationalism.
"UT HISPANICUS CADIT, SIC OMNIS TERRA"
(As Spain falls, so falls the whole world)
Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!
Question:
What was the Spanish/American War?
Politically Correct Resolution:
At the ending of the nineteenth century the United State's was a
sovereign nation that wanted to maintain this status. It was
the internationalists that called it an "Isolationist" nation,
because it didn't want to get involved in overseas conflicts.
The Spanish/American War.
(Global Building)
(Wikipedia used for most of this article)
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the
United States. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for
decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had
been war scares before. By 1897–98 American public opinion grew angrier
at reports of Spanish atrocities, magnified by "yellow journalism". After
the mysterious sinking of the American battleship Maine (the Catalyst) in
Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the
government headed by President William McKinley, a Republican, into a
war McKinley had wished to avoid. Compromise proved impossible, resulting
in an ultimatum sent to Madrid, which was not accepted. First Madrid,
then Washington, formally declared war.
Although the main issue was Cuban independence, the ten-week war was
fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. A series of one-sided
American naval and military victories followed on all fronts, owing
to their numerical superiority in most of the battles and despite the
good performance of some of the Spanish infantry units. The outcome
was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which was favorable to the U.S. followed
by temporary American control of Cuba and indefinite colonial authority
over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The defeat and subsequent
end of the Spanish Empire was a profound shock for Spain's national
psyche. The victor gained several island possessions spanning the
globe and a rancorous new debate over the wisdom of imperialism.
Thus, (the United States gained there much wanted warm water ports
to extend their World Wide influences).
American interest in Caribbean
In 1823, the Monroe Doctrine stated that further efforts by
European governments to colonize land or interfere with states
in the Americas would not be accepted by the U.S., but Spain's
colony in Cuba was exempted. In 1890 Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which credits the
rise of Britain to world power to the Royal Navy. Mahan’s ideas
on projecting strength through a strong navy had a powerful
worldwide influence, especially Japan. Theodore Roosevelt, later
Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley and an
aggressive supporter of a war with Spain over Cuba, was also strongly
influenced by Mahan’s conclusions. Americans had long been interested
in Cuba (and Hawaii), since several U.S. presidents offered to purchase
it from Spain (James Polk, Franklin Pierce and Ulysses S. Grant),
and others expressed their hopes of future annexation.
Historians debate how much Americans were interested in obtaining
an empire, while noting that the European powers had in recent
decades dramatically expanded their empires, especially in Africa
and Asia. The United States seized this opportunity to become
an international empire themselves.
Thus, began the "gradual transformation" of the United States from
one of isolationism to one of internationalism.
"UT HISPANICUS CADIT, SIC OMNIS TERRA"
(As Spain falls, so falls the whole world)
Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!
Question:
What was the Spanish/American War?
Politically Correct Resolution:
At the ending of the nineteenth century the United State's was a
sovereign nation that wanted to maintain this status. It was
the internationalists that called it an "Isolationist" nation,
because it didn't want to get involved in overseas conflicts.
The Spanish/American War.
(Global Building)
(Wikipedia used for most of this article)
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the
United States. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for
decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had
been war scares before. By 1897–98 American public opinion grew angrier
at reports of Spanish atrocities, magnified by "yellow journalism". After
the mysterious sinking of the American battleship Maine (the Catalyst) in
Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the
government headed by President William McKinley, a Republican, into a
war McKinley had wished to avoid. Compromise proved impossible, resulting
in an ultimatum sent to Madrid, which was not accepted. First Madrid,
then Washington, formally declared war.
Although the main issue was Cuban independence, the ten-week war was
fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. A series of one-sided
American naval and military victories followed on all fronts, owing
to their numerical superiority in most of the battles and despite the
good performance of some of the Spanish infantry units. The outcome
was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which was favorable to the U.S. followed
by temporary American control of Cuba and indefinite colonial authority
over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The defeat and subsequent
end of the Spanish Empire was a profound shock for Spain's national
psyche. The victor gained several island possessions spanning the
globe and a rancorous new debate over the wisdom of imperialism.
Thus, (the United States gained there much wanted warm water ports
to extend their World Wide influences).
American interest in Caribbean
In 1823, the Monroe Doctrine stated that further efforts by
European governments to colonize land or interfere with states
in the Americas would not be accepted by the U.S., but Spain's
colony in Cuba was exempted. In 1890 Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which credits the
rise of Britain to world power to the Royal Navy. Mahan’s ideas
on projecting strength through a strong navy had a powerful
worldwide influence, especially Japan. Theodore Roosevelt, later
Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley and an
aggressive supporter of a war with Spain over Cuba, was also strongly
influenced by Mahan’s conclusions. Americans had long been interested
in Cuba (and Hawaii), since several U.S. presidents offered to purchase
it from Spain (James Polk, Franklin Pierce and Ulysses S. Grant),
and others expressed their hopes of future annexation.
Historians debate how much Americans were interested in obtaining
an empire, while noting that the European powers had in recent
decades dramatically expanded their empires, especially in Africa
and Asia. The United States seized this opportunity to become
an international empire themselves.
Thus, began the "gradual transformation" of the United States from
one of isolationism to one of internationalism.
"UT HISPANICUS CADIT, SIC OMNIS TERRA"
(As Spain falls, so falls the whole world)
Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!
Question:
What was the Spanish/American War?
Politically Correct Resolution:
At the ending of the nineteenth century the United State's was a
sovereign nation that wanted to maintain this status. It was
the internationalists that called it an "Isolationist" nation,
because it didn't want to get involved in overseas conflicts.
The Spanish/American War.
(Global Building)
(Wikipedia used for most of this article)
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the
United States. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for
decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had
been war scares before. By 1897–98 American public opinion grew angrier
at reports of Spanish atrocities, magnified by "yellow journalism". After
the mysterious sinking of the American battleship Maine (the Catalyst) in
Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the
government headed by President William McKinley, a Republican, into a
war McKinley had wished to avoid. Compromise proved impossible, resulting
in an ultimatum sent to Madrid, which was not accepted. First Madrid,
then Washington, formally declared war.
Although the main issue was Cuban independence, the ten-week war was
fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific. A series of one-sided
American naval and military victories followed on all fronts, owing
to their numerical superiority in most of the battles and despite the
good performance of some of the Spanish infantry units. The outcome
was the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which was favorable to the U.S. followed
by temporary American control of Cuba and indefinite colonial authority
over Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The defeat and subsequent
end of the Spanish Empire was a profound shock for Spain's national
psyche. The victor gained several island possessions spanning the
globe and a rancorous new debate over the wisdom of imperialism.
Thus, (the United States gained there much wanted warm water ports
to extend their World Wide influences).
American interest in Caribbean
In 1823, the Monroe Doctrine stated that further efforts by
European governments to colonize land or interfere with states
in the Americas would not be accepted by the U.S., but Spain's
colony in Cuba was exempted. In 1890 Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which credits the
rise of Britain to world power to the Royal Navy. Mahan’s ideas
on projecting strength through a strong navy had a powerful
worldwide influence, especially Japan. Theodore Roosevelt, later
Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley and an
aggressive supporter of a war with Spain over Cuba, was also strongly
influenced by Mahan’s conclusions. Americans had long been interested
in Cuba (and Hawaii), since several U.S. presidents offered to purchase
it from Spain (James Polk, Franklin Pierce and Ulysses S. Grant),
and others expressed their hopes of future annexation.
Historians debate how much Americans were interested in obtaining
an empire, while noting that the European powers had in recent
decades dramatically expanded their empires, especially in Africa
and Asia. The United States seized this opportunity to become
an international empire themselves.
Thus, began the "gradual transformation" of the United States from
one of isolationism to one of internationalism.
"UT HISPANICUS CADIT, SIC OMNIS TERRA"
(As Spain falls, so falls the whole world)