The New New Deal: "Why Don't We Just Do It?"

So our new book is out. FDR and the New Deal For Beginners is hitting the indie bookshelves world wide, it's got a trailer on YouTube, and 100% positive reviews so far (We've only recieved one review, so what? It's still early). So yeah, this book is a pretty big deal...

But why? What's so great about a dead president? A sixty-five years dead president?

Well, why don't you just take a look at the front page of yesterday's Sunday Money in the New York Times? If you do, this is what you'll see: What Would Roosevelt Do?

It's all about the failings of the recent government stimulus plans, how the GDP is only one way of looking at economic recovery, and the importance of job creation to pull our country out of this recession.

Roosevelt did a pretty good job pulling America out of the Great Depression and he did so by creating jobs for everyone. Not necessarily long lasting or favorable jobs, but labor intensive-jobs to get people back on their feet until the economy was in better shape. This is something that our current government has not quite caught onto yet. Creating temporary, labor-intensive, government jobs would cost fractions of the current stimulus plans and have imencely positive impact on society that would not otherwise occur in a failing market economy.

Read the article, read our book. As the article states so nicely, "Why don't we just do it?"