Don't take my word on it:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla...sion-5409.aspx

The UCLA study that many economists site today.

http://www.amazon.com/FDRs-Folly-Roo.../dp/0761501657

While I may not be an economist, Milton Friedman most certainly is and along with many other respectable economists endorse this book.

So, I respect your opinion but cannot agree with you despite how well you might present your case (and I respect a well presented case). I will put my stock behind the Friedmans of the world when it comes to economics before I take the word of someone I don't know.