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Will Donald Trump be the Herbert Hoover of the 21st Century?


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Will Donald Trump be the Herbert Hoover of the 21st Century?

That is the question.  

I think most here like DT, so this isn't trolling.   But if we have a significant stock market decline plus a economic slowdown, it could lead to a Democrat (socialist) as the next president with a Democrat congress.

Also, it doesn't have to be a full blown depression.  The news media and entertainment industry will make anything bad feel like a depression.

My fear is that he will be painted as Herbert Hoover.  

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1 hour ago, AerynSun2 said:

Will Donald Trump be the Herbert Hoover of the 21st Century?

That is the question.  

I think most here like DT, so this isn't trolling.   But if we have a significant stock market decline plus a economic slowdown, it could lead to a Democrat (socialist) as the next president with a Democrat congress.

Also, it doesn't have to be a full blown depression.  The news media and entertainment industry will make anything bad feel like a depression.

My fear is that he will be painted as Herbert Hoover.  

I question whether we are having an economic slowdown since the recent slowdown was preceded by a period of economic growth and unemployment went from 5.6 in 2014 to 4% in July of this year, The stock market has had a couple of recent drops but has rebounded. And the S&P 500 which measures stock market performance, is up overall by 32% since Trump was elected,

Don't believe the Hype.

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So far, Trump did more in his first year as President, (while half of the Republican's and all of the CommieDemDuh's desperately attempted to take him down) than Herbert Hoover did in all the time he was in office. I don't believe he will ever be compared with Hoover.

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9 hours ago, Citra47 said:

So far, Trump did more in his first year as President, (while half of the Republican's and all of the CommieDemDuh's desperately attempted to take him down) than Herbert Hoover did in all the time he was in office. I don't believe he will ever be compared with Hoover.

Why do you think Presidents need to "do things"?

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8 hours ago, gwalchmai said:

Why do you think Presidents need to "do things"?

Many don't.   Look at PB-HO, who made no attempt to keep those promises on the platform he ran on. Instead, he did his best to tear apart the United States and create racial hatred and division in his time in office. So, yes, I guess he did something but it was all negative.  If we look at those presidents that attempted to keep all of their campaign promises after being elected, we have a VERY short list. The American populace does not elect a president to do nothing or to turn to a political agenda after being elected that is closer to Communism than anything else - right down to Christmas tree ornaments glorifying Communist leaders. Why do I think Presidents need to "do things"?  Quite simply because they just became the most powerful person in the world and they OWE the American people who elected them to do the job they were elected to do.

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On ‎12‎/‎18‎/‎2018 at 8:16 AM, gwalchmai said:

The Dims needed a scapegoat for 32.

He certainly made it easy. His denial that the Depression was getting worse, his insistence that it was getting better as more and more people were losing their jobs and homes. His claim that people were quitting jobs to sell apples on the street, and that  one mythical hobo who was eating at a dozen soup kitchens a day and was putting on weight rang hollow to just about everyone but Henry Ford and JP Morgan. Granted, Hoover was instrumental in saving Europe from starvation post WW1, and no doubt his finest hour, but his efforts as President to help people who were hardest hit during the Depression was his worst.

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25 minutes ago, Clancy said:

He certainly made it easy. His denial that the Depression was getting worse, his insistence that it was getting better as more and more people were losing their jobs and homes. His claim that people were quitting jobs to sell apples on the street, and that  one mythical hobo who was eating at a dozen soup kitchens a day and was putting on weight rang hollow to just about everyone but Henry Ford and JP Morgan. Granted, Hoover was instrumental in saving Europe from starvation post WW1, and no doubt his finest hour, but his efforts as President to help people who were hardest hit during the Depression was his worst.

Turned out he was right, too. Soon as the Dims let things alone and we got the war up and running things turned right around. And of course FDR was there to take the credit.

 

Also, don't forget Hoover saved New Orleans from the 1927 flood with no public funds.

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10 minutes ago, gwalchmai said:

Turned out he was right, too. Soon as the Dims let things alone and we got the war up and running things turned right around. And of course FDR was there to take the credit.

 

Also, don't forget Hoover saved New Orleans from the 1927 flood with no public funds.

He was far from right. FDR did a lot of things, some worked, some didn't. Hoover wanted to do nothing.

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