What Happened in the Great Depression?
FDR is still revered as the president who got us out of the Great Depression. His own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morganthau, said that eight years of spending failed to reduce the unemployment rate. But Roosevelt is still considered a hero, not a failure who couldn’t end the Great Depression after ten years. He couldn’t end it at all, really, because World War II was what eventually ended it. Conservative Battle Plan Conservatives lost the battle to keep this stimulus plan from going forward, and putting one in place that would work, led by tax cuts. We must expose this slight of hand. Just like sitting in the theatre watching a magic show we have to stand up and shout, “Did you just see what he did with his left hand?!!” We need to preempt this by asking liberals, “You’re not going to start saying now that the package is designed to save jobs rather than create them, are you?” If we don’t expose them, they’ll pull it off.
