The New York Times Fascist Economic Analysis Jack Kemp In a worse than amoral article in the New York Times last March, David Leonhardt, stated: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/economy/01leonhardt.html?_r=1 "In the summer of 1933, just as they will do on Thursday, heads of government and their finance ministers met in London to talk about a global economic crisis. They accomplished little and went home to battle the crisis in their own ways. More than any other country, Germany — Nazi Germany — then set out on a serious stimulus program. The government built up the military, expanded the autobahn, put up stadiums for the 1936 Berlin Olympics and built monuments to the Nazi Party across Munich and Berlin. The economic benefits of this vast works program never flowed to most workers, because fascism doesn’t look kindly on collective bargaining. But Germany did escape the Great Depression faster than other countries." END OF QUOTE Although the Times probably assumes we all know what happened when those armaments traveled to Poland, France, etc., what Mr. Leonhardt fails to state is that the arms buildup itself was a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles. And it shows the failure of the Western arms inspectors to openly declare those violations (they weren't all that hard to find).  As for lesser unemployment, which the Times somewhat artfully skirts the result of firing of all Jews from public positions such as teaching and the forced selling of their businesses at distress prices, both activities which resulted in more Aryans being employed and the Jewish unemployed not likely being bothered to be included in the national unemployment statistics. After all, these Jews could not legally look for work in the official economy. As for the 1936 Berlin Olympics which the Times so glibly mentions, Adolph Hitler personally objected to two Jewish track athletes, Marty Glickman (later a famous New York sportscaster) and Sam Stoller being in the Olympics - and the US Olympic Committee (while Franklin Roosevelt was President) acceded to Herr Hitler's wishes, not allowing them to compete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Glickman#Track_career_spoiled_by_anti-Semitism_at_the_Berlin_Olympics The first time I read about this '36 Berlin Olympics story, maybe thirty years ago, was on library microfilm of the New York Times. We can assume that perhaps David Leonhardt has access to his own paper's archives. This was the second major story of the Berlin Olympics, along with Jesse Owens' victories. So the Times believed in late March 2009 that Hitler's "stimulus works" (their words) and we can rest assured that Obama's stimulus will work. Would they care to read a poll - based on recent selling activity - of FORMER shareholders on the New York Stock Exchange? Or how about a poll of people looking for work in America? And one can speculate on the wisdom of a newspaper owned by the Sulzberger-Ochs family speaking favorably of a 1930s German stimulus that would have cost this combined family the ownership of their very newspaper. And a great deal more. The New York Times has now descended into something bordering on apology for National Socialism in a perverse attempt to bolster the arguments of the Obama Administration. I wanted to think the Times wasn't capable of such a quasi-coverup of the facts of 1930s Germany. The common norm of post WWII journalistic decency is now gone at the Times. I'm not a German attorney, but a story like this might well be considered illegal in Germany itself, with their strict antifascism laws. It would definitely would cause some serious criticism in the German press. The only thing I can say in conclusion that the Times is now willing to openly display a nihilism and moral resignation that was typical of the times of the Weimar Republic.