>>I expect that this is true. It happened after the depression even though FDR's New deal lengthened the depression considerably. When prosperity returns, it will not be because of Obama - it will be in spite of him.
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>rof,l
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>Because three years of Hoover's laissez faire policies after the crash had done so much to help the country get moving again and FDR's programs came in and turned all that progress around. Yeah, right.
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>Tamar

FDR policies did nothing to "turn the process around". It was WW2 that ended great depression. One may assume that FDR policies contributed greatly to prolong depression for 7 more years before the war.