History can come back and bite us in the rear.
I hope most of you have been watching the PBS/Ken Burns series, “The Roosevelts.” Because it is telling us something. Pay more attention to history. Especially history that repeats itself.
History that repeats means we are not paying attention. Had we paid attention to what happened back then, then maybe we could have seen the 2007 crash. Many of the same things that happened during the depression of the 1930s happened again recently. Are you following me?
What happened in the past ten years could have been avoided. We citizens dropped the ball and allowed banking, big finance, Wall Street, the previous Whitehouse administration, the military industrial complex, and talk radio lull us into believing all was cool and don’t worry about the future. A big mistake. We ignored or forgot our American history we learned in high school.
If we don’t keep our attention on what happened in the past, our future will be in serious trouble again. Put your trust in the people not the yammering know-it-alls. Especially those guys who poo poo regulations and rules for banking and Wall Street. Regulations and rules that protect we citizens and consumers from future financial crashes or personal bankruptcy. God help us all. Read your history books and be prepared against blatant misinformation.
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Charles W Oldenfatt 
Hi Chuck,
I also watched that week of The Roosevelts. Really informative. And I totally agree with your
comments. Tell me now, how come Oklahoma became so conservative politically? The state was in terrible shape during the depression, (weather made matters worse too). It was Roosevelt’s policies, the new deal, banking reforms, and programs like WPA & CCC that brought the state back out. My parents experienced those times had nothing but praise for
Roosevelt, the New Deal & DEMOCRATS. Now all my acquaintances, my age and Oklahoma grown are all hard-core conservative republicans (and proud of it). They don’t have a pot to piss in yet they think just let Capitalism, Wall Street, Bankers, big business do as they please and everything will just be hunkey dorey. I am out numbered in any discussions of such matters.
In the eleventh grade at Manual Arts High School in LA my history class research paper
was on………..the New Deal. Mr Dangerfield must have liked it -I got an A.
Ron
(an Arkie, grew up in LA, and currently living amongst new age Okies)