how did americans feel about post-war prosperity?
446282
thing is, war destroys wealth. the wealth comes from taxes which is taken from us before we get out checks on friday. we dont get it back, its destroyed. thers no prosperity after war, ever.
1074856
I am quite content with being fairly well to do in the United States.  Though not wealthy compared to some, my countrymen (and countrywomen) live better than the emperors and kings thousands of years ago.  We also live almost shamefully well compared to others on this planet.  Having sufficient food and shelter for everyone on the planet is an attainable goal as is adequate health care.  \nI am sad only when my expectations are unrealistic.
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Interesting query. Our prime minister, Winston Churchill, and your President Roosevelt had a few things in common. Roosevelt was born in New York. Churchills grandfather (Leonard Jerome) was also born there. \nThey shared some aspirations for the future of their countries, and they both played a substantial role in the creation of the welfare state that has become the nanny state. I hasten to add I can only comment on the british benefits system regarding the nanny state.\n\nWinston Churchill procrastinated a great deal whereas Roosevelt was a little more concise and to the point. Take these two quotes for example -\n\nChurchill: 'Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end ofthe journey. But this, sofar from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb'\n\nRoosevelt: 'It is common sense to take a method and try it: if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.\n\nAnd -\n\nChurchill: It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.\n\nRoosevelt: Be sincere; be brief; be seated.\n\nI have digressed from your question however. On the whole I don'r agree with Churchill's statement, at least not if it is applied to today's society. It nay have been more fitting during the war when America was drawn closer (perhaps reluctantly) to Europe and a certain comradeship was a way of life. Sometimes a little more than comradeship between the G.I's and our land girls!!\nI feel that the main difference between our homelands is our pride in our respective coumtries and the reasons for it.\nI don't feel proud to be british any more. The days of 'pulling together' are long gone. It's 'all for one and one for all' nowadays. There has been a mass migration going on in the UK for a few years. Anyone that is selling a property is moving out to France, Spain, etc. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There are people being murdered in villages for a few pence from their purses. Yob culture rules and teenagers with hoods are to be avoided. Sure, this kind of behaviour has always gone on, but mainly prevalent in big towns in the past. \nOur taxes are crippling. People who've worked hard all their lives are living well below the poverty line. They have saved for their pension only to be told that it doesn't exist. And as I mentioned earlier, too many citizens sit back and accept the ample hand-outs the government provides in exchange for votes.\n\nBritain has also lost it's sense of humour.To quote Roosevelt again -\n\n'I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - a sense of humour and a sense of proportion'\n\nI cannot comment on the differences in the American way of life as I've not lived there but I get the feeling you're all still proud of your origins and wouldn't swap your nationality for all the tea in China. I'd like to hear your views on that.\n\nWhen I joined the march in London against the war I saw an amusing placard being held up by a young girl proclaiming 'The only Bush I trust is my own. That tickled me but also reminded we're probably not the only country with a corrupt government. \n\nI feel there will always be a bond between the States and the United Kingdom - I hope so. But I also feel that America looks after it's countrymenin a more constructive way than our government. You are encouraged to study, work, and save towqrds a better future. And if you live your life that way you get results. We don't.\n\nThat said, I will finish on a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter to Winston Churchill.\n\n'It is fun to be in the same decade with you'\n\nAh. comradeship!
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Ha ha u stink, my teacher was a softy, we just finished reading of mice and men and he never gave us h.w.\nThe farm depression of the 1920s:\nGreat Depression in the United States, worst and longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. Beginning in the United States, the depression spread to most of the world’s industrial countries, which in the 20th century had become economically dependent on one another. The Great Depression saw rapid declines in the production and sale of goods and a sudden, severe rise in unemployment. Businesses and banks closed their doors, people lost their jobs, homes, and savings, and many depended on charity to survive. In 1933, at the worst point in the depression, more than 15 million Americans—one-quarter of the nation’s workforce—were unemployed.\n\nThe depression was caused by a number of serious weaknesses in the economy. Although the 1920s appeared on the surface to be a prosperous time, income was unevenly distributed. The wealthy made large profits, but more and more Americans spent more than they earned, and farmers faced low prices and heavy debt. The lingering effects of World War I (1914-1918) caused economic problems in many countries, as Europe struggled to pay war debts and reparations. These problems contributed to the crisis that began the Great Depression: the disastrous U.S. stock market crash of 1929 (see Black Monday), which ruined thousands of investors and destroyed confidence in the economy. Continuing throughout the 1930s, the depression ended in the United States only when massive spending for World War II began.\n\nThe depression produced lasting effects on the United States that are still apparent more than half a century after it ended. It led to the election of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who created the programs known as the New Deal to overcome the effects of the Great Depression. These programs expanded government intervention into new areas of social and economic concerns and created social-assistance measures on the national level. The Great Depression fundamentally changed the relationship between the government and the people, who came to expect and accept a larger federal role in their lives and the economy.\n\nThe programs of the New Deal also brought together a new, liberal political alliance in the United States. Roosevelt’s policies won the support of labor unions, blacks, people who received government relief, ethnic and religious minorities, intellectuals, and some farmers, forming a coalition that would be the backbone of the Democratic Party for decades to come.\nSorry- this is the best I can find for education during the 1930s:\nEconomics dominated politics in the 1930's.  The decade began with shanty towns called Hoovervilles, \nnamed after a president who felt that relief should be left to the private sector, and ended with an alphabet soup of federal programs funded by the national government and an assortment of commissions set up to regulate Wall Street, the banking industry, and other business enterprises. The Social Security Act of 1935 set up a program to ensure an income for the elderly. The Wagner Act of 1935 gave workers the legal right to unionize.  John L. Lewis founded the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and conditions for blue-collar workers improved. Joseph P. Kennedy, a Wall Street insider, was appointed Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commissions.
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We are Blessed because we live in the GREATEST nation on the planet!  I too love the country (and ALL the nuts).\n\nI really cannot imagine what the world would be like If the US never existed.  Whether you agree or disagree with our recent or past actions, I am not sure WWI would have ended well - I KNOW WWII would not have. \nI think the best way to look at it is the way "It's a wonderful life" did.  Sure we may have problems, but the world would be a whole lot worse off if it weren't for us. \n(and anyone who denies that really hasn't looked at world history).
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You have to take into consideration that the U.S. Gov. compares its stats with the time of the last two economical depressions we have had in this country, which I believe was around 25% in the first on and 80% in the second. Then look at the fact that the population has grown, yet the if the percentile  has not fluxed then to them it have been a good season, the progress has been good  to those who apply and get more than one job. You may see it as neutral but growth and employment on the rise, it is positive.\n\nSince America in itself is the "strongest, stable, etc." nation in the world, they are their own template to have comparison to. I can honestly say, there is no other nation in the world that can compare to us in this arena. At least that is what I have observed and studies.
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One word...  "Jealousy"\nWe are still the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world although that status is now on decline due mostly to bad leadership.  People see our success and power and get quite jealous.  We are still the land of opportunity and freedom though and that is attractive to everyone.  We have jobs, unemployment support, medical care, a governement that doesn't torture or kill, and a hugely diverse population.  What isn't to like about living here?  If you were in another country with little hope of success and you saw the soap operas about the wealthy American life style I am sure you would want to come here as well.\n\nI don't agree with the view expressed by some that that people are just mad at our government.  I will concede that at one time that might have been the case but in my field of work for an environmental consulting agency with internation ties I see things differently.  I visit places and meet people of many nations and I have to say that, for the most part, when people know I or my coworkers are American they treat us very differently so we usually go with claiming to be from Australia or Ireland depending on who is in our group.  Don't get me wrong.  There are many good people as well who like Americans just like any other nationality.  They are very tolerant which makes the experience much more enjoyable.  Once again, it is the ones who make the most noise that get heard and right now those are the US haters.  Some people just like to blame others for their sad lives rather than trying to improve their situation.
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Booming Baby! Booming! We, in the US, were at WAR during some of that period and as with all wars fought on foreign soil, we were benefiting economically.\n\nGDP +10.32%, -4.32%, 9.77%, 5.48%, 12.99%, 7.47% for the years 1995-1900 respectively.\n\nHere is a tip though, two of the six years we were not at war.
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America did not dis-arm all their ICBM's, and never will, there are thousands in silos across the US. Russia still has thousands for sale, though they arent in good condition. Those who say Reagan were generally children during his presidency and knew no other for 8 years. His economics were that if you make the rich super-rich, they will bend down eventually and offer the lowly folks more. (trickle-down-economics). Lol, set wages back a decade. And he invaded a lil country full of rich-American resort homes owned by actors, news anchors, and , of course, politicians, all tax-free being out-of-country 'investments', because the local government wanted to benefit fairly from these people. "God Bless America", eh Ronnie?
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Many people were saving money during the WWII. After the war, the soldiers came home, and there wasnt a need to save money anymore.  All the people bought stuff and increased demand and  increased supply because there were more people to work(vertans). Now you get the post-war economic boom of the 1950s.
668654
No. I think some of the people who lives over there are happy they have their government the way it is now as opposed to what they had before.
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Like any other nation, a war is costly and, during teh war, production is high and productivity is better than it was before. After the war, there is less need for production (since artillery and war materials are not as necessary). The veterans from the war also come back to the workforce, and the backlash would result in unemployment, whether it be for the veterans or the current workers. Also, due to the German air raids over britain, the cost for reconstruction would hinder other areas of productivity that would boost teh economy. The lack of demand over luxury goods, since people need money to buy other things like food, would lessen still since the people may fear losing their jobs. The overall world economy after world war I was devastating, not only in Great Britain.
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I think it is good for the country. They will be paying taxes (11 million of them). These taxes will help the people who are on welfare. This will remind all people in USA (exception the native Indians) that everybody in this country is from immigrant beginning. Remember the Irish drought...the Jewish migration after WW2...the slavery era...Columbus... etc. Everyone in America came from immigrant beginning. \nAnd now after few generations in USA, we forgot that we are once an immigrant or our ancestors were once an immigrant to this country. What if the native Indians won during those days and our ancestors were forced back to where they came from or they were killed by the natives? \nI hope that when people start complaining about the immigrants (legal or illegal), they should look at themselves first.
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You could ask them about how perceptions of women changed (how they viewed themselves as well as how others came to view them) as they scrambled to fill the domestic job openings left by the men who went off to fight overseas.\n\nAlso, did s/he feel compelled to take a "patriotic" job with the defense industry or something that benefited the nation's war effort?  If s/he didn't, why not?  If s/he did, what did the person end up doing?  Did they feel they were helping out their country?\n\nDid they ever worry what might happen if their homeland got invaded (I'm assuming you're asking North Americans or UK people)?  Would they have been ready to take up whatever arms they had and try to repel the invasion, even if there wasn't much hope?\n\nAfter the war started, how long did they think it would take to end?\n\nWas rationing effective or did too many people just gyp the system in one way or another (bribery, hoarding, etc.)?\n\nWhat sacrifices did they make so that they could help out the soldiers?\n\nDid they buy war/liberty bonds?  Did they worry about the massive federal deficits?\n\nHope this helps out.
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yea ... unfortunately its led the americans to understimate the world outside .. their opinion is further clouded by an insatiable materialistic pursuit... they constitute 5% of the worlds population and consume 45% of the worlds natural resources ... \n\nthey fail to realise that people have different satifaction levels.. for example i live in india... just cause my country isnt fully developed it doesnt mean that we aren happy...  it would broaden the perspective of americans if they stopped lookin at negatives of other communities and recognisin positives.
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No, it has nothing to do with pride.  Americans DO take pride in their work, but not because of its quality, rather because of its quantity and the speed and efficiency with which the products are produced.  We don't think about much besides profit and the ability to work less.  The quality of the products depends more on the fact that we've begun to cater to an increasingly large world, and the consumer society is enveloping (has already enveloped) industrialized countries.  Capitalism and democracy go hand in hand, and with such commercial demand, the ability to create a sufficient stockpile results in the inability to make that stockpile full of the highest quality (or even decent quality) items.  Sad, but that's how it is.\n\nAlso, it's simply financially suicidal to substitute quality for quantity.  Corporations and other businesses care more about profits than they do about the ultimate satsfaction derived from the sale of their goods.  (Not all of them are like this, though.  This is a generalization.)  We're too cheap to care that it's not as good as it could be, and the American Dream caters to this ideal that money is more important than a lot, including a job well done.\n\n(On a more cynical note, though I'm not always of the same opinion, there's the argument that a decent/satisfactory product will last only half as long as a good/great product, necessitating the purchase of a similar product within only half the period of time.  This equals more profit for companies...)
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i personally feel flash in the pan really. We have had on major wars <yet thankfully> and no great revolutions or technological advances such as bronze/iron age man or the industrial revolution. i wonder what we will be remembered for as a generation, and a worldwide culture?