We were comming out of the depression by the time we entered WWII with the attack on Hawaii. Had the Japanese not attacked we wouldhave been in a boom, and workers were heading into the military and house wives were entering the workforce in factories.
Where the Government spending is needed is where private industry will not place capital. Interstate highway system, hydro electric dams, and water treatment plants are deficit spendings that private industry is not going to produce but are needed, create short term jobs and long lasting jobs.
The stimulus bill "shovel ready" and all was not a works program, it was a wealth tranfer. Nothing was going to be built with that money. The Interior department, the EPA, the energy department, all were alligned to stop any and all projects. The economy with capital from companies could bouce us right out of the current depression if they were allowed to open factories, use the natural resources they own, build refineries to make more fuels and energy cheaper. The problem again is what you are deficit spending for.
If you have grown government so large it need ot borrow money to survive, that is bad and every government job kills three private jobs. Killing jobs by growing goverment shrinks the tax base and lowers demads, again shringking the economy creating more deficit spending.
We need top get a leader that will free the capitalist machine, we need a tax code that is equal and not punitive. we need to ignore psyudo science of man made global warming and the economy killing rules and regulations that are generated by an EPA that does not want factories, building, mining, or transportation.
