2007-10-15 06:48:18 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Speaking German. We would not have gotten far enough out of the Great Depression to be able to battle the Germans and the Japanese. The stock market would have swung up and down and crashed several times between 1928 and 1941 without the strict anti fraud and anti manipulation rules of the SEC. Without back to work programs such as the WPA and the NRA, the communist party may have gained a strong foothold. The rural south would not have been electrified for many years.
2007-10-15 07:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
C.E.O.s and major stockholders would love it....as for the working class: no more 8 hour days, no more minimum wage, no more Tennesee Valley Authority bringing electrification to the rural south. No more collective bargaining...as it is it literally takes an act of Congress to get these cheap S,O,B,s to pay 5.85 an hour. In short the U.S. would be approaching a third world standard of living, with 10-15% of the populace getting quite wealthy and 85-90% struggling to survive. We would probably still be on the gold standard. As a direct result of the New Deal, the Works Progress Administration [WPA] was able to put nearly nine million people to work to build 650,000 miles of roads and 800 airports. Thank God for FDR and thank God for John Maynard Keynes!
2007-10-15 07:33:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think there's a good chance that America would have faced a rebellion in the '30's and a semi-fascist would have risen to power in '36. The attempted coup that Gen. Smedley Butler prevented might have succeeded and America might have not gotten involved in WW2. The Japanese would have struck a deal with the Americans and Pearl Harbor would never have been attacked.
Israel would never have been created and the world would have been blown up.
just supposing though.
2007-10-15 06:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by jj raider 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We would have been completely polarized into the VERY poor and the VERY rich with no middle class, no neighborhoods and soccer fields and other things that make up middle America. It would have been a modern day Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution scenario.
If you were not born into a wealthy family, you would now essentially be working for one in some capacity. Like a Monarchy of snobbish Ivy Leaguers. Imagine Paris Hilton and George Bush "leading" this nation. Holy crap.
2007-10-15 06:59:40 · answer #4 · answered by Mimi Di 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
America would be even farther down the fascist road.
2007-10-15 07:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably Communist. Things were so bad during Hoover's depression that this country was ripe for a revolution.
2007-10-15 07:01:34 · answer #6 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Hard to say, but I would guess that it would not have been a Flower Power Revolution in the 60's.
Can you say comrade?
2007-10-15 06:58:37 · answer #7 · answered by Think 1st 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The New Deal has been bastardized into what it is today and FDR himself would be appalled at the way government spends money and the dependency of Americans on government entitlements.
2007-10-15 06:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 7⤋
probably no longer called ameria and split up into several countrys
2007-10-15 07:42:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
America, as we know it, would not exist.
2007-10-15 07:25:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋