Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2007 21:54:57 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote in
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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Unfortunately, it seem others here still echo Hoover's crass
insensitivity toward their fellow Americans. I believe that those who
think that way would have no qualms about re-instituting slavery in
our nation if they thought they could get away with it.

Hoover's crass insensitivity? What are you referring to? WWI food relief?
Mississippi flood relief?


If you had bother to read the content of the article to which you are
following up, you would have found the answer to your question:



http://home.att.net/~history240/hist...epression.html
Aggravating the nation’s economic problems was the passage of the
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930, intended to protect American industry
from foreign competition. As the highest tariff in the history of the
United States, it is named after the Republican Congressman (Willis C.
Hawley) and Republican Senator (Reed Smoot), who jointly sponsored its
passage, which was immediately signed into law by President Herbert
Hoover. The tariff brought immediate revengeful tariffs against the
United States, which resulted in a severe decrease in foreign trade,
thus intensifying the harsh effects of the Great Depression worldwide.
Hoover maintained that status quo insofar as his policy agenda was
concerned; in other words, he failed to take action to correct a
rapidly deteriorating economic situation, depending instead on private
enterprise and corporations to pick themselves up and correct the
situation.


Hoover made the mistake in thinking a tax increase could get the US out
of nationwide economic problems. This is a mistake that todays liberals
seem all to willing to repeat. Taxes are a virtually always a negative
to the economy.

FDR's "New Deal" didn't pull the US out of the depression. WWII did.