Wasn't FDR born in Canada? His plan to combat the Great Depression was to radically increase public sector jobs. There was so much expansion, people just referred to it as "The Alphabet Agencies".

One of the reasons was pretty smart actually. He wanted to send all the unemployed young men out to the middle of nowhere to build trails and parks, because he was concerned about them violently revolting if left to their own devices.

Incidentally, that's the same reason Saudi Arabia sends all of its young men abroad for college.

grayruby

That's what FDR did, but I suppose he was born in Canada.

Undisciplined

econ

Employment Falls for the Third Month In Spite of 50,000 New Government Jobs

I see the US is trying the Canadian playbook. Paper over all the private sector job losses with more useless public sector jobs. 