52. Rapchat, you are not just wrong but clueless. If The Usurper has declared a tax holiday and NOT bailed out anyone, the economy would be well on it’s way to recovery. Instead we are in one of the lulls that ALWAYS happen in a depression;

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/p/greatdepression.htm

FDR tried an alphabet soup of government agencies, as did the European nations, It didn’t work. Some of the better textbooks on the subject have timelines with economic indicators showing what effect the varios programs tried had. It isn’t unusual for an economy that is crashing to have upturns. Sort of like a paper airplne. It will go up for a little ways before diving toward the ground. Each uptick is smaller and shorter then the one before, each dive is longer and deeper.
Learn a little history.
What hasn’t been tried is a tax holiday. The theory is that if the government stops taxing AND spending, the people will just ‘naturally’ get he economy back on track. Pure Adan Smith.
Not sure it will work. Positive that the big government plan won’t work, since it has been tried dozens of times and didn’t work once.
What has been proven to work is a short victorious war.
Many Socialist nations have chosen to end a bad economy this way. It doesn’t work out that well, unless you win.
So the Usurper has about 4 months to get the economy going or start a war.
May unemployment will be over 10%, no matter how hot they cook the books. You have all those college grads out looking for work. You have the summer jobs scene (Tourist driven) going belly up because nobody can afford a normal vacation. So things will get MUCH MUCH worse over the summer.
Jobs programs pretend to pay people for pretending to work. Once that program ends, so do the pretenses.
Jobs programs will not generate revenue. They don’t create wealth. They are not self sustaining.
So it’s a tax holiday or we pick a country to invade.
We either go for the OIL , or pick one with nice beaches and lovely women of negotiable virtue.