Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Yes they spent millions of dollars on actual products and goods.(tanks,planes. Trucks, Jeeps,ammo,uniforms. etc) Which served as a direct massive stimulus to the economy.
Not millions of dollars on cooperate bail outs, and tax credits to people who do not even pay fed income tax, and other pork ladened social spending programs.
FDR's new deal policies came well before the war, and were a hamper on recovering from the Depression. Only time, and yes a world war actually got us out of the depression.
There are many facilities that the WPA and CCC built here in Oregon that are still used on a daily basis. Very real products and goods. And why would not a program building a distributed grid, and the alternative energy sources, not be the same as building tanks and planes?