[publius1]

Wow.... New York Times goes a-historical! Is this a new record? As far as I know, this absolutely flies in the face of every fact.

The conclusion is straight from the Times regular ideology book: the New Deal helped all those poor little people... To wit:

"Congressional Republicans say Mr. Obama’s stimulus will cost too much, and that over time the economy will cure itself. When critics raised the same objections to F.D.R.’s programs, his relief administrator, Harry Hopkins, had a ready answer: “People don’t eat in the long run. They eat every day.”"

*** You have to read the whole thing not to believe it.

[Eye of Unk]

[Doogle]

Spend?...sorry I didn't get my gubment check so I can't buy a bank yet.

[ClearCase_guy]

The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.’s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.

This is one way in which the Left goes askew in its thinking. Ever since the time of FDR, it has been axiomatic for the Left (and also too many Republicans) that a primary purpose of the government is to create or preserve jobs. It's all about unemployment, you see.

In fact, it out to be about growing the economy and increasing production. Government-funded jobs cannot do that. Siphoning money away from productive resources in order to create government jobs is exactly where FDR (and Obama) get it wrong.

[DemforBush]

"The second problem is that the criticism overlooks the relief Roosevelt’s programs brought to millions. When F.D.R. took office, unemployment was 25 percent, and families were losing their homes, living in shantytowns, even fighting one another for food at garbage dumps."

Roosevelt's Agricultural Adjustment Acts authorized the destruction of millions of livestock animals and enforced scarcity in many other food crops in an effort to make agribusiness profitable again.

[skinkinthegrass]

Make the New New Deal A Success -- Spend More! (NY Times)

NYT: ....Where's OUR bailout check?....Well, 0Bambi?

"Troika / Footstool of Liberalism...Corruption, Nationalization & Propaganda" Rush Limbaugh
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O’Rourke

[Villiany_Inc]

Can someone get me the bio on the writer of this piece? I am at work and dont have the time right now.
I know an Adam Cohen who is a University professor here in Indiana and I am wondering if it is the same one. (It certainly sounds like something he would write.)

[chainsaw]

Stimulus money will do no good.

What will work is eliminating NAFTA and putting US workers back to work.

That is how the depression was ended in 1941.

[Neverforget01]

I wish someone would do a study on the psychological depression (not financial) that comes with receiving jobs one did not earn or money one did not earn. Nothing could be more disheartening.