George Will: ‘The First New Deal Didn’t Work’ | ThinkProgress

Economists on both the left and right broadly agree that the need for stimulative government spending is necessary to prevent a further collapse of the global economic system — just as the New Deal and the deficit spending of World War II restored the health of the global economy in the last century.This morning on ABC’s This Week, conservative columnist George Will echoed the false right-wing meme that FDR’s New Deal policies made the Depression worse:Before we go into a new New Deal, can we just acknowledge that the first New Deal didn’t work?

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