History repeating itself  

Oh my gosh! We studied this in my 10th grade history class - for some reason I remember it quite clearly. It's crazy to think these types of political-satire comics can hold true after almost 100 years of it being first illustrated, and that we're still dealing with the same BS as we were so long ago. Shouldn't we be politically evolving or something..? .

I'm also posting a picture of one from during the Cold War that I found particularly funny and true.

I think that history does repeat itself. Nobody was expecting a recession and a depression which left so many people begging for money and a better living. The same happened recently, nobody had predicted such a situation with all the job losses! Economists had suspicions things were going wrong, but had no certainty as to what was going to happen.

The sad fact is that the "Great Depression" was starting to recover when the government stepped in to help. First was a protectionist Tariff by President Hoover, and that was followed by massive spending by the government under President Roosevelt. WWII would have pulled us out of the depression and lead to Economic Growth but the massive government debt and lack of private capital prevented economy from growing. We did not see economic growth until the mid 1950'.

The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.

It is not that history repeats itself, it's that ideals repeat themselfs, ever listen to R.E.M.'s song it's the end of the world, it's still true today, how about the four fundmental forces? The greeks thought fire, earth, wind, water were the elments of everthing, now it's strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagntism, & gravity. Which will proably change again. We learn from are histroy, we just don't apply that knowledge

Great cartoon, so sad that in 75 years we haven't learned a funking thing!

I'm sure that Franklin D. Roosevelt had plenty of people in his day, like the artist for that cartoon, poking fun at his efforts to combat the effects of the great depression on peoples lives. Right or wrong, his efforts to involve the government to ease the suffering of the common man (and woman) worked, and ultimately helped to end the depression and get us back on our feet. Obama faces very similar circumstances, with plenty of detractors, too. I can only hope that the results for his efforts will be like history repeating itself.

Is that so, I want to see it. So nothings change. I can see your posted picture after i put on my response discussion. I will put photo remarks.

Seems like someone was in a time capsule and commented on present day situation back then.