Are you seriously trying to claim that there was no adverse economic problems because of the New Deal? If you haven't noticed, we are still under the New Deal economic plan. Government spends money on programs to create jobs. When has that stopped? Unfortunately, it hasn't. So now we have nearly 80 years of policy building up to a head.
The New Deal ushered in period of economic growth and prosperity which lasted until the late 1980's. But it would be difficult to assess it's economic impact on the American economy in isolation without considering the impact World War II and the Baby Boom.
For example food stamps became a National program in 1984 under Richard Nixon. In 1979, when Reagan was elected, there were 20 million people receiving food stamps. In spite of increases in the eligibility requirements and reductions in the benefits paid, under Reagan, food stamp useage exploded under Reagan, more than 8 million people were added to the rolls by the end of Reagan's first term. That explosion of useage comes in spite of the lower employment rates during Reagan's first time and the massive tax cuts given to the wealthy. That's also more than a 33% increase in the number of people receiving assistance under Reagan than under Carter.
During the Clinton Administration, costs under the program plummetted, party because the Clinton Administration produced a lot of new jobs, and party because of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 which capped benfits over a three year period and increased the eligible income level. In other words, after 14 years of the Republican putting more and more people on food stamps, Clinton kicked them off.
From 2002 to 2005, the cost of the SNAP program grew by 37% per year. That's more than double what the program was costing when W took office. The use and cost of social programs has exploded under Republican administrations.
Now that low wage corporations like Walmart have started using food stamps and Medicaid to subsidize record profits, and the entire big box industry is instructing their workers to apply for food stamps and other government programs, rather than pay them a living wage, use of the SNAP program and other social programs are continuing to increase under Obama.
Bush created the fiscal problem with Medicare Part D because it was a pre-election give-away to the elderly to get them to vote for him. A typical Republican cut taxes and spend program, that lack of funding comes home to roost next year.
Whatever you want to say about Obamacare, and the new taxes to pay for it, it least it has taxes to pay for it.
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