Will Rogers: From Great Depression to Great Recession
by
Gary Anderson
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Will Rogers: From Great Depression to Great Recession
Introduction
The casino was alive and well in Will Roger's time. It was called Wall Street then as well. But mainstream media allowed for the total exposure of the criminal greed of the Street. Bankers were determined not to allow that mistake to rain on their next financial orgy, so that Will Rogers would have had no voice in the days of the ponzi housing bubble and subsequent crash. Things are different now, and mainstreet is even more vulnerable than in the roaring twenties. As a 10th grade dropout, the most powerful pundit of his time saw through the behavior of predatory bankers. Moreover, he had the forum with which to warn the nation. In the Great Depression and the times leading up to it, there was a mainstream voice for the people. In the days leading up to our ponzi housing bubble and even after the crash, there is no such powerful journalist. Don't be deceived, Will Rogers would have figured out the current banker schemes just as effectively as he figured out the schemes and scams of his time.
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Will Rogers Was a Great Man
My dad told me as a youngster that Will Rogers was a great man. He never said why and he never said it about anyone else. One thing is for sure, he was a man of the people. He dropped out of school in the 10th grade, having been born in the Cherokee nation. He became a part of a truly free press, that allowed his comments which ripped the heart out of a corrupt banking system, leading up to and resulting in the Great Depression.
In those days the Pecora commission was defended by Roosevelt, and the most trusted mainstream pundit, Rogers, understood that capitalism was broken. He wanted a law against easy money. He knew that speculation and easy money was an attack on the American way of life. The Pecora commission of course came up with a great law to stabilize bank behavior, Glass-Steagall. We have been deceived by the bankers into thinking that Glass-Steagall didn't matter. But it very much did matter.