 was also sort of a hunting ground for communists and socialists for uh for politicians on the right of course but i mean how can you be mad at you know park across the street from you you know that's a good thing yeah right so i think one of the questions a lot of people ask is did the new deal end the depression and i don't think you can say that it did because by 1940 the unemployment rate was still at 15 percent um but it was another massive government spending program that did end the depression and that was called world war ii