So you believe we should have just starved out the masses in the depression? Sorry I can't hop on that wagon in the context of those times.
Modern Welfare has no comparison to the WPA. Work was required.
Do you think the US and Great Britan could have stopped the Nazis without Stalin chasing them back to Berlin?
"Modern Welfare has no comparison to the WPA."
It was nothing but welfare, designed to make sure that we didn't come out of the depression until the industrial wealth had been stolen and secured. Only when that haqd beern accomplished did he negotiate the attack on Pearl so that the people would accept our entry into WW2.
The proper course of action would have been to award contracts for the WPA work putting the entire economy back into action using equipment to do the work and putting the manufactures of equipment, maintainance, repair, fueling, etc. which would have brought the depression to an end. Just feeding people does nothing but make them subjects of the central government.
As far as Germany, we should have let them destroy Russia before laying them to waste.
I doubt seriously that you had to live through that era and are spouting what some government school planted into your head.