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WW1 Ghost Fleet An EXample Of How Well Progressivsm Works
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 4:17 pm
by Jccarlton
In WW1 the Wilson Administration took over all sorts of industries to "help the war effort." The more I look at these things the more it looks to me as if they took things over to demonstrate how much better progressives could run things than the putative owners and badly they could fail.:
http://sometimes-interesting.com/2013/0 ... llows-bay/
1000 ships were ordered, but only 90 were commissioned before the war was over. The Wilson Administration continued to build the ships, made from wood, until 1919, I guess as a jobs program and the ships were just left to rot. This is the same thing that you see I all socialist style programs where all the feedback and responsibility are nonexistent.
Re: WW1 Ghost Fleet An EXample Of How Well Progressivsm Work
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 5:11 pm
by Diogenes
Jccarlton wrote:1000 ships were ordered, but only 90 were commissioned before the war was over. The Wilson Administration continued to build the ships, made from wood, until 1919, I guess as a jobs program and the ships were just left to rot. This is the same thing that you see I all socialist style programs where all the feedback and responsibility are nonexistent.
I was unaware of this, but it fits perfectly with my world view of Liberal statists.
Thanks for puttin me some new knowledge.
Re: WW1 Ghost Fleet An EXample Of How Well Progressivsm Work
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:50 pm
by Schneibster
WWI?
Really?
Really?
Re: WW1 Ghost Fleet An EXample Of How Well Progressivsm Work
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:56 pm
by Schneibster
Germans gassed Allies in WWI?
Blame Obama.
Torquemada tortured people in the Spanish Inquisition?
Blame Obama.
Re: WW1 Ghost Fleet An EXample Of How Well Progressivsm Work
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:11 pm
by Diogenes
And nobody cares what scheisser thinks about this either.
Re: WW1 Ghost Fleet An EXample Of How Well Progressivsm Work
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:43 pm
by Schneibster
Asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs?
Blame Obama.
Hurricane wipes out New York and New Jersey?
Blame Obama.
Re: WW1 Ghost Fleet An EXample Of How Well Progressivsm Work
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:25 pm
by hanelyp
The ships build by gooberment industry as a jobs program then left to rot reminds me of the recent Chinese ghost cities, built for unknown purpose then abandoned incomplete when some manager changed his mind.
Re: WW1 Ghost Fleet An EXample Of How Well Progressivsm Work
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 2:43 pm
by Diogenes
hanelyp wrote:The ships build by gooberment industry as a jobs program then left to rot reminds me of the recent Chinese ghost cities, built for unknown purpose then abandoned incomplete when some manager changed his mind.
Very expensive Potemkin Village. Socialist thinking simply doesn't exist in a rational mind.