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In this episode, we explore how fdr s new deal rebuilt america. I mean, imagine looking out your window during basically the absolute worst starvation crisis in American history and you're watching the federal government pay farmers to just slaughter six million pigs and let the meat literally rot in the sun. Yeah, it sounds completely absurd. Right. Or watching them actively plow under 10 million acres of perfectly good growing cotton while people are walking around in actual rags. I mean, it sounds like absolute madness, like a cartoon villain's plot or something. It really does. But in 1933, it was a desperate calculated mathematical equation, right, designed to basically save the United States from total collapse. So welcome to our deep dive. Today we are looking at a massive encyclopedic breakdown of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Yes, s ... 
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