Talk:Harry Hopkins

message: It seems like this article describes a lot of New Deal Policies, which don't have much to do with Harry Hopkins. If the reader of the article is interested, reference him to the page describing the WPA, FERA, and other stuff, but don't actually include that information in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.118.25.175 (talk) 03:28, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unrelated information 

message: Why no critical section on Harry Hopkins and the WPA?
Why is there no section in the article on the life of Harry Hopkins on the corruption (political and financial) of the WPA. There is a (small) section on the corruption (political and financial) of the WPA in the article on the WPA itself, but in the article on Harry Hopkins himself all that is said is that the WPA "created jobs" (no mention of the jobs it DESTROYED by the taxes needed to pay for it) and nothing at all on the corruption (political and financial) of the WPA. There were reasons that the heads of the WPA and the PWA did not get on - it was not just a personality clash. The PWA (whatever one thinks of the economics of it) was basically honest - the WPA was a corrupt political machine (designed to deliver votes), and Harry Hopkins (the man who created the agency and controlled it) can not escape some blame for that.
5.66.136.118 (talk) 06:07, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia requires reliable sources for information--ideally, in this case, historians or biographers. Could you indicate what books you're looking at to start us off? -- Khazar2 (talk) 11:57, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: taxes were not raised to pay for the WPA. (deficit financing was used--paid back at a time of postwar full employment and prosperity) so no jobs were "lost" Rjensen (talk) 16:40, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the Russians were doing a huge amount of fighting and dying and American policy was to give them all the help possible so as to minimize the number of Americans killed.  In a world American policy "greatly aided and abetted the Soviets."  Hopkins job was to carry out American national policy.  A different policy would have helped the Nazis. Rjensen (talk) 10:11, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jobs 

message: So FDR brought in some experts who gave Hopkins plasma and saved him.  Is there any medical basis for that notion?  People had lots of strange ideas about what blood could do back then.
Is it more likely that Hopkins just happened to get better at the same time?  We have thousands of people walking around today with most of their stomach removed. That shouldn't be fatal in itself.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.204.117 (talk) 21:33, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plasma cure? 

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