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Quote by: billybobama  Let me give you a fact that relates to FACSISM and the GREAT DEPRESSION. "1937 Wagner Housing Act opposed by rural and southern congressmen led by Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia: southeners also opposed 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act that sought to eliminate child labor that was widely used in the south and that established minimum wage and maximum hours for all workers,including blacks; southeners also killed the anti-lynching bill in 1938 with a 6 week filibuster. |
Now this is the type of post which displays the total ignorance and lack of understanding of fascism which the conspiracy lunatics thus far on this thread have displayed.
Fascism ABSOLUTELY suppored using government to support improving housing and living standards. Hell, Hitler himself designed new housing designs for the German workers.
Fascism ABSOLUTELY supported using government to establish minimum wages (in fact, wages were fixed and could NOT be lowered without state approval). It also supported existing laws which capped the amount of hours which people can work. Child labor was already illegal in Germany, and the National Socialists naturally did not change the law.
The amusing part of whole claim that these businessmen wanted a "fascist" style solution to the great depression was that FDR was giving it to the USA anyways. The only diffeence was that of degree. Germany, being far more "socially" advanced of the USA in 1933 started at a higher lebvel, and went more further, and of course, more harshly, than what occurred in the USA. In the end, what ended the grat depression in the USA, and to a lesser extent in the USA, was the arms buildup.