8 Dreadful Acts From US Presidents

So the great depression really sucked. The economy was in the toilet (if anyone could afford a toilet) and by 1932 it's estimated a quarter of the country was unemployed and over two million were homeless.

The poor bastard in charge when the depression hit was Herbert Hoover. Hoover was a staunch old school Republican, and believed that throwing money into services for the poor wouldn't solve the overall issue.

It's a perfectly valid theory, but not the best principle for dealing with the great depression.

So in 1932 when 20,000 World War I veterans appeared in Washington demanding promised money for their service, Hoover may not have been the best suited to be passing out cash.

The money had been promised to the veterans by 1945 but as many were suffering through the depression's hardships many of them campaigned for the money then, so they could eat and things like that.

Hoover ordered the military disperse the shanty town made by the veterans, using 600 troops a cavalry detachment and five WWI era tanks.

Whether you agree with the vets asking for their promised money early is just or not, the means in which Hoover dispersed the crowd is a massive overreaction and completly heartless.