Monday, November 24, 2008

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

As Nobel-laureate Paul Krugman wrote recently in the New York Times, "There's a whole intellectual industry, mainly operating out of right-wing think tanks, devoted to propagating the idea that F.D.R. actually made the Depression worse. So it's important to know that most of what you hear along those lines is based on deliberate misrepresentation of the facts. The New Deal brought real relief to most Americans."

video and rest at http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/23/will-new-deal/

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