Tohle už jsem někde slyšel...už vím kde:
Herbert Hoover: We might have done nothing. That would have been utter ruin. Instead we met the situation with proposals to private business and to Congress of the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. We put it into action.... No government in Washington has hitherto considered that it held so broad a responsibility for leadership in such times.... For the first time in the history of depression, dividends, profits, and the cost of living, have been reduced before wages have suffered.... They were maintained until the cost of living had decreased and the profits had practically vanished. They are now the highest real wages in the world.
Creating new jobs and giving to the whole system a new breath of life; nothing has ever been devised in our history which has done more for ... "the common run of men and women." Some of the reactionary economists urged that we should allow the liquidation to take its course until we had found bottom.... We determined that we would not follow the advice of the bitter-end liquidationists and see the whole body of debtors of the United States brought to bankruptcy and the savings of our people brought to destruction
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Podobnost čistě náhodná? Mnoho ekonomů je dnes naprosto oprávněně přesvědčeno, že to, co Hoover a po něm Roosevelt udělali vytvořilo z nepříjemné recese Velkou krizi. Když vidím ty miliardy, tak mě napadá jedno pravidlo, které jakoby v krizích přestávalo platit: There ain't nothing as a free lunch...
ondra
