Well...and I dare say this is going to get me into trouble through Godwins Law, however, in times like these I do tend to think of the German public works programs which came into being in the early thirties and flourished under the Nazis. I don't know, deficit spending to get out of recession is something that seems rather unpopular amongst the world at the moment, except perhaps in Switzerland, perhaps because it is deficit spending in boom times that have eventually lead into recessions. I'm not so sure, economics is not my strong point, but I do look at Germany in an economic viewpoint from 1933 to 1938 and I see a very strong turnaround (although to be fair, Germany wasn't actually gaining money but losing it through an input/export ratio imbalance), caused perhaps by the military-Keynesianism economic route taken by Schacht, or perhaps it is that coupled with the outlawing of the unions and the gradual erosion of civil liberties. Although, one could definitely argue that the same has happened to a lesser extent in the UK, the unions have nowhere near the power they used to, and CCTV has spread like a weed across every city in the nation. No Gestapo yet though
