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“Stimulus” Debate Rekindles New Deal Controversy

Posted By Sheldon Richman

“Underlying the partisan division over President Obama’s stimulus bill is a dispute over history, a decades-old debate between liberals and conservatives over the impact the New Deal had in bringing the country out of the Great Depression.” (Seattle Times [1], Friday)



Where did FDR get the money?



FEE Timely Classic

“The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal” [2] by Robert Higgs


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[1] Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008739326_newdeal13.html

[2] “The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal”: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-mythology-of-roosevelt-and-the-new-deal/

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