Det ser ud som om den påståede 'redning' af USAs økonomi var blændværk. Stærkt stigende arbejdsløshedstal bringer mindelser om dengang, Hoover og Roosevelt prøvede at redde USA fra børskrakket i 1929, med dette berømte resultat:
We have tried spending money, we are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started….and an enormous debt to boot.-Henry Morgenthau Jr.
