[Vision2020] Sunil doesn't know squat...

[Sue Hovey]

Actually they weren't company towns--just makeshift homes built primarily by 
men who were out of work.   After they built a Hooverville in sight of the 
White House, the police moved in to knock it down, and Hoover continued to 
proclaim, "Prosperity is just around the corner...."

Sue
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: <suehovey at moscow.com>; <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>; 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Sunil doesn't know squat...


> Sue -
>
> I was of the assumption that "Hooverville" was a reference to a nickname
> given to company towns that surfaced during the Hoover administration.
>
> That, or "Hooverville" was the home town of Hoover vacuums.  And thusly,
> Hooverville, a town of great Hoovers.
>
> I believe, though, that Sunil was referring to Hooterville, the town of
> great . . . ah, well . . . you kknow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
>
>> No, No,  that was Harperville.  Hooverville is a place in Indiana where
>> they manufacture vacuum cleaners and produce great basketball teams. .
>>
>> Sue
>>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>>   From: Sunil Ramalingam
>>   To: vision 2020
>>   Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:49 AM
>>   Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Borrow and spend [was Say what?]
>>
>>
>>   Sure, that's the place where Sam Drucker had that great general store,
>> just up the road a piece from Petticoat Junction.
>>
>>   Sunil
>>
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>>   From: suehovey at moscow.com
>>   To: Vision2020 at moscow.com; nielsen at uidaho.edu
>>   Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:23:10 -1000
>>   Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Borrow and spend [was Say what?]
>>
>>
>>   Well Mr. Austria doesn't know his history very well, does he?
>>
>>   Guess he never heard of Hoovervilles.
>>
>>   Sue H.
>>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>>     From: Ralph Nielsen
>>     To: vision 2020
>>     Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:59 PM
>>     Subject: [Vision2020] Borrow and spend [was Say what?]
>>
>>
>>     Borrow and spend! Isn't that exactly what the Republicans have been
>> doing for the past eight years and beyond, beginning with Ronald Reagan?
>> Tax and spend, as the Democrats do, means pay as you go, but borrow and
>> spend leads to bankruptcy.
>>
>>     Ralph Nielsen
>>
>>     "When [President Franklin] Roosevelt did this, he put our country
>> into a Great Depression.  He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use
>> the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression.
>> That's just history."
>>
>>     - Rep Steve Austria (R-OH) (February 10, 2009)
>>
>>
>>     http://tinyurl.com/bwetr3
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