Like FDR did in the 1930s. Buy up, kill and bury millions of cattle and hogs to get the price up, Up, UP! even though people were starving as they had no jobs to buy food when it was even cheap.
Well, I farmed for a year and grew a crop of corn
That stretched as far as the eye can see
That’s a whole lot of cornflakes,
Near enough to feed New York till 1973
Cultivation is my station and the nation
Buys my corn from me immediately
And holding sixty thousand bucks, I watch as dumper trucks
Tip New York’s corn flakes in the sea
- The Who (Now I’m A Farmer)
FDR - confiscated gold.. Burned crops to raise prices...
FDR imprisoned American citizens in camps during WWII..
Roosevelt called Mussolini “admirable” and professed that he was “deeply impressed by what he has accomplished.” The admiration was mutual..
https://www.cato.org/commentary/hitler-mussolini-roosevelt
As much as I dislike FDR, he did do some things that were better than just doling out money to poors for nothing. He created the Works Progress Administration that was responsible for building many public buildings throughout the country creating jobs, and he created the CCC Civilian Conservation Corps that had multiple works projects in agriculture, environment etc.
Try that today and the first thing that happens is the workers bitch about a “living wage.”