Rebuttal of
Keynesian Economics
William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., "The Hand of Improvidence," The Nation, November 14, 1934.
The New
Deal, being both a philosophy and a mode of action, began to find expression in
diverse forms which were often contradictory. Some assisted and some retarded
the recovery of industrial activity. . . An enormous outpouring of federal
money for human relief and immense sums for public-works projects started to
flow to all points of the compass. . . Six billion dollars was added to the
national debt... a bureaucracy in Washington grew by leaps and bounds . . . and
finally, to lend the picture the heightened academic touch, John Maynard
Keynes, of Cambridge, England,. . . commenced the plan
of buying Utopia for cash.