We have covered this ground before and it was one of the worst periods of our economic history. Eight years of "stimulus" left nothing to show but a huge debt:



"Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was FDR's Secretary of the Treasury from 1934-1945. In the following important quote, he admits that the big New Deal stimulus spending programs had failed.



(p. 2) We have tried spending money. We are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong . . . somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job, I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. . . . I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started . . . . And an enormous debt to boot!



Source:

Folsom, Burton W., Jr. In New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America. 4th ed. New York: Threshold Editions, 2008.

(Note: ellipses in Folsum's version of the quotation.)




Folsum says that this statement was from testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee in May 1939; and can be found in Morgenthau's Diary entry for May 9, 1939 at the Roosevelt Presidential Library. "



The secrecy and refusal to reveal the how much and to whom surrounding the current wave of "stimulus" will be viewed as one of the darker eras of our country by future historians.

The actions of the FDR administration prolonged the depression, and we are going to see a parallel effect with the current actions. The difference being that today's crisis involves a more global outcome with much more widespread fallout, much of which has yet to occur.