This is for class ;-(
This is for class ;-(
From what I have read, if Lincoln had lived reconstruction would have been very different. As it was, the focus was on punishment and retribution. More like Treaty of Versailles than Marshall Plan. The latter would have been far more productive.
I am pretty sure vampires had something to do with it.
To see the blanket obstructionists of the GOP and Tea Party in Congress seething with hate is shameful and racist.
This is probably the best one volume book about Reconstruction out there:
Take a few days and read that; you'll learn more than you will here.
What do you think of the current Post-Reconstruction theme in America ?
Umm.... wrote:
What do you think of the current Post-Reconstruction theme in America ?
Could you explain more fully what you mean?
Large public works projects are the only way to maintain the system we have in place today. As society advanced we moved from agrarian to manufacturing to services/technology economies. The human work input, generally speaking, went from 10000 to 1000 to 100 (round numbers).
The unemployment we are seeing today can be categorized as "structural" and while some manufacturing jobs will come back from China (some reports show they are), it will not look anything like it used to and will not support the population.
The result of these effects will be a tiered system: those employed/producers and those relying on the state. This is going to be very unstable because even though people think they like doing nothing all day it's not a sustainable system.
Answers: 1. keep them fed and drugged (and playing video games) almost like The Matrix. ok, maybe. 2. Large-scale projects.
America the Beautiful wrote:
To see the blanket obstructionists of the GOP and Tea Party in Congress seething with hate is shameful and racist.
enjoy the collapse and the economic ruin you've brought upon yourself
Pathetic how repubs are roadblocking progress in Congress just like the South did during post-reconst.
Thugs gonna thug and there's not a god damn thing you can do about it.
Road Block wrote:
Pathetic how repubs are roadblocking progress in Congress just like the South did during post-reconst.
Translation: Republicans aren't complying with the Democrat's demands, so we'll label them "obstructionists" since all we're smart enough to do is presuppose the correctness of our own agenda.
OP: which era?
I believe the op is talking about the last few years of this economic crisis.
My view is that only time will tell. Since we are living in it its not really history yet.
Although some general themes that we will most likely take away from this time are...
1. Gov't failed to regulate the banks from giving inappropriate mortgages which led to a recession. Although the banks and the people given these mortgages are equal partners at fault in my opinion.
2. Terrorism on American soil led to public approval of very expensive foreign conflicts, which have resulted only in a waste of tax payer monies, no economic benefit to the U.S., and a unneccesary loss of American lives.
3. The transition from Bush to Obama has led to more non- military gov't subsidized contracts. However, this still needs to play out for us to see in the long term if it will benefit or hurt the economy. Just like FDR's New Deal.
I think you ought to do your own homework.
It was going so well until this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_stochastic_general_equilibrium
now even macroeconomists can't understand macroeconomics.
...so it goes.
General Education wrote:
This is for class ;-(
It would help a lot if you defined the era you have in mind. Do you mean the entire stretch of time from 1877, the year in which Reconstruction formally ended, until now? That's a lot of ground to cover.
Post-Reconstruction has halted any progress in Congress. The GOP is on a 5 week vacation while cops and fire fighters are being layed off in droves.
Rotton Eggos wrote:
Post-Reconstruction has halted any progress in Congress. The GOP is on a 5 week vacation while cops and fire fighters are being layed off in droves.
Holy cow! The GOP is laying off cops?! They've got my vote!