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.