Did you believe Kerry when he said this was, "the worst economy since the Great Depression"?

Question

Sometimes we ignore politician’s rhetoric as simply an embellishment to get votes, much as we ignore fans claims of who is going to win an upcoming game.

Since Kerry repeated this so many times I’m wondering how many actually believed his claim when he was running for president. Be honest.

If you did believe it, explain your knowledge of the Great Depression. Such as, did people actually starved to death or was it more like they couldn’t afford to buy their favorite music.

Folks… Please don’t haggle over the semantics. This just makes you appear to be making excuses why you believed what Kerry said was true. If you were old enough to be around during the election you know he said this time and time again adding and changing the exact quote here and there.

Heck, you’re already on Yahoo… do a search if your think you can con others by using a memory fixated on one of his specific quotes. Here are some he said besides the original to different news outlets:

"the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression"
“the worst hiring slump since the Great Depression”
“the worst job recovery since the Great Depression”
“the greatest job loss since the Great Depression”
“the worst economy in 70 years”
“the worst economic record since the Hoover administration”

It all boils down to my original question and it doesn’t matter if Kerry was wearing brown shoes, tan shoes or cordovan shoes… you either believed him or you didn’t.

Answer 1

Inflation, interest rates and unemployment ALL in double digits…Would You call that the worst economy ‘since’ the Great Depression? I lived through it and to this day I still do! Thanks Jimmieny Carter and a majority democratic government! The most conspicuously failed administration in American history!
I’ll accept the truth…If You Will Also!

Answer 2

Maybe it is a campaign promise--"If you elect me, history will show..." Unemployment is only 6.1 % in September. During the 1930s unemployment reached over 25%. However, there are some serious concerns about the money supply, and underemployment is always the Phantom Menace, so to speak, in these employment numbers. Sub prime mortgages had their roots in social engineering of Clinton. Lack of regulatory reform to meet the challenges wrought by affirmative lending falls on Bush and the Congress. The real blame fall on any of the politicians in this democracy more worried about re-election than responsible leadership. Maybe we should make a law that every Congressperson and Senator take a course in Economics.

Answer 3

The economy is great right now. Kerry was using a scare tactic and was peddling to the dumbest common denominator. He is such a putz.

But I worry...a great many people are livin large and can afford to. I worry about that class of people who think that their job at McDonald's should entitle them to the newest $200 cell phone and the coolest, most expensive clothes, that neat iPod, a nice new digital camera, a kickin stereo for their 1972 powder blue Pinto. These people are largely using credit but they don't really have the cash to back that up.

By & large, though, things are lookin goooooood!

Answer 4

this is tooo funny, i all i can do is laugh .

you list a bunch of quotes but no ligimate source,
your aruguement about semantics is also sad because what your suggesting and what was actually said are two diffrent things....its like you don't care about the truth...

this is funny but also alittle sad, too....



FIRST YOU MUST QUOTE ACCURATELY BEFORE MAKING UP SOME BS DIATRIBE ABOUT A SOMETHING HE DID NOT SAY...IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A LIAR AND AN LESS EDUCATED FOOL.

The actual Kerry quote is the "America is still in the worst job recovery since the Great Depression.

thats job recovery with a "j" and an "r" not economy which is with an "e"

not the same thing as economy is it.

was that statement true when he said it....yes.
look it up, for a long time GW failed to create one net job, meaning compared to the loss of american jobs he failed to recover all lost jobs and create a new one......


Not only did you misquote but it was a statement may have also been issued by his office through one of his spokespeople. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15053-2004Jun4?language=printer

"Any step forward in the job market is good news for workers, but America is still in the worst job recovery since the Great Depression," Allison Dobson, a spokeswoman for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), said in a statement

Answer 5

The Great Depression was the worst economy this country ever faced. In 2004, Kerry spoke that we were facing the worst economy since. With interest rates going up, up, up, we may have just squandered all of the benefits to the economy that the Clinton administration gave us. I remember those days, I certainly had more money in my pocket then.

Answer 6

Every luxury you have was bought on credit. Yes, americans feel rich because their government runs the printing presses non-stop and is playing a Ponzi scheme with the rest of the world. Our trade deficit last year was $700 BILLION. Our deficit was $300 Billion. Add that to the personal debt in real estate, car loans, credit cards, and store cards, the average American has a $1 MILLION debt.

So long as the bill collectors in Asian, Middle-Eastern, and European banks keep taking those IOU's and don't come calling to collect, your little illusion of prosperity will continue.

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2006/cr042506.htm

Answer 7

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Helping you eliminate depression?

Answer 8

the great depression was felt in the metropolitan cities more so then anywhere else.
Some of the crop failures created some hardships for american farmers .the vast niumber of whom where farming less then 10 acres and lost the farms to the banks.They where small farms rented or heavily mortgaged at the time who'sowners could not make the payments or rents.
THIS meant a few thousand farmers mostly poor and minorities that then headed for the big city's looking for work.
An already desperate job situation in large cities who tend to move store package refine and redistribute goods was then burdened even further by incoming farmers.
WITHOUT capital to bring in raw materials to be made into durable goods labor suffered with a shortage of work for men who handled these goods.
IMPORTS &EXPORTS were down dramaticaly from the boom days of the twentys the land rush and gold and silver migrations had ended and the billions in furs gold silver and woods for furniture had been plundered and the rich who underpaid the workers and providers of these products had scwandered the profits on lavish homes and trips abroad a lifestyle in hard times that could not be maintained.
our markets are down when you factor in the amount of durable goods importes and exported adjusted for population growth which is a factor presidents and politicians leave out.ALSO we have un-employment that is not carried on the books anymore because this makes politicians look bad .WE have lost millions of manufacturing jobs that paid between 10-40 dollars an hour and replaced the majority of them with 7-16 dollar an hour jobs.
WHILE jobs have been created you must look closer at the real numbers.only 80,000 jobs have been added to the Hi-tech manufacturing market and r&d investment is down.Companies instead are showing growth in investments a reduction of employees and heavy managment for a smaller more profitable business that makes money from short term high yield speculative investments that are hit and miss at best .
When they mention how many new companies have been created often the fact that 20,000 filed for bankruptcy in the same fields due to market stratigies like cutting jobs and making risky investments to show profits rather then having people make something.CO. A --makes base ball bats and has made good returns for 60 years upper management is heavy and production costs have been reduced with automated equipment.the line employess left make an average of 37 dollars an hour and management is making 150,000 on average.100 people are working.75 in management and sales/marketing 25 still on the line.SOME one gets the brilliant idea how to make even bigger profits and CO. b comes in and offers to buy the business for 47,000,000 bucks and the fun begins .THE plant and equipment are relocated to argentina line costs are reduced to $3.75 per hour management is no longer needed and let go except for a few key positions.BOB who had worked the line for 35 years had moved into an office job hunting spare parts to keep the equipment going and in reality it would of been cheaper to buy new but bob has been with the company for ever he is fired never to return to the work place except as a warehouse guy for $9.00 an hour and much of the fat is trimed .AN online sales and distribution network is set up creating a 750,000 one time fee.and management and marketing is reduced to 5 guys out of 75. the 25 line guys are gone completely and ups has a valuable new customer direct shippment is introduced and bats are brought to the cargo terminal in argentina and haned to ups workeers for delivery to the U.S.
THE profits created from the company are invested in high risk venture capital deals and lost the new owners mortgaged everything or sold of what was not needed and no close down operations .COMPANY b who did this consists of five guys who paid one another over 25million in two years now have bankrupted the company and left the bank with debt they do not pay back.ACTUAL loss here is 100 jobs even though in the short term it created work for the firm that installed the software
and some bankers and traders and brokers all got in on it we lost a company that provided permenet steady employment to the community and it is gone and with it 100 jobs .
THIS is happening every year for the last 30.
YOU tell me is this a booming economy or some numbers on paper that make some people feel good.MILLIONS of good paying jobs are gone and only a few have replaced them. SERVICE JOBS ARE NOT JOBS AND 3 MILLION CRAPY JOBS CAN NOT REPLACE 2 MILLION PERMENENT JOBS.
REMEMBER WE ARE ADDING A FEW MILLION PEOPLE TO THE JOB MARKET EACH YEAR THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MEN AND WOMEN GET TOGHETHER AND MAKE SOMETHING.
like all amricans need to do get back to making real products and quit trying to make a fast buck.

Answer 9

Kerry is a moron. Americans are doing better now than anytime ever. People are living large, driving nice cars, living in nice houses, wearing $200 nike air jordans, everyone has a cell phone and money to burn. People whine about gas prices, but havent cut back on their driving. People are doing good. Stock market is good. What the hell is Kerry talking about?

Answer 10

I personally think ALL of those quotes, while is correct that he said them where all rhetoric to get him votes.

Most of these nay-sayers on here have such a hatred for Bush that no matter what, they will say Democrat Good, Bush bad.

One or two in here would rather see this country go down in flames while Bush is president just to prove a point.

It is sad!