There is nothing on Earth like massive war production to kick start an economy...as long as the bombs are falling on someone else's homeland. The USA was in that fortunate position in WWII, and has been ever since with the one notable exception of 9/11.

FDR tried hard to get the country out of the depression, and he did pass some notable progressive legislation, but the war was the crucial factor in putting America back to work on a full scale basis.

Be that as it may, the neoconservative movement is passionately dedicated to doing away with every piece of progressive legislation ever passed by FDR or anyone else...because it stands in the way of their one god...MONETARY PROFIT. That's a philosophy of unrestricted greed at the expense of all else. Such a philosophy deserves an ignoble death and a deep and permanent grave. Put a bleeding dollar sign on the tombstone, and stamp a skull and crossbones over it.

- LH