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Lowry: Do We Really Want Another New Deal?
Barack Obama, take note: FDR did not end the Great Depression.
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The new take on the New Deal
Betsy's PageRich Lowry answers the new take on the New Deal that some leftists have adopted today. They acknowledge that the New Deal per se didn't lift us out of the Great Depression and point to World War II as the biggest fiscal stimulus in history and a model for today. What an upside-down approach that would be. Most analysts agree that World War II ended the Depression. The Left tries to appropriate the war for the New Deal by characterizing it as simply a public-works program writ large—as if global cataclysm, with millions killed, countries overrun by invading armies, and major ...

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