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andym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 10:55 PM
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2. It's fascinating and instructive history.
I have read a quote from one of the participants in the early New Deal (100 days) that basically stated they had no idea what they were doing, they were essentially making things up as they went along to see what worked. (I've been looking for the source of this quote, but haven't found it).

As a scientist, I always like the experimental means of testing whether an idea is good. They were literally doing that.
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