Ronald Reagan actually said...

Well, the increase—as the recession goes on and unemployment increases, of course, the deficit increases.

Inflation does have a temporary, stimulative effect just by its very nature.

Those high taxes had fueled a rate of increase in government spending that reached 17 percent in 1980 alone.

And the way out of it is not the way that's been tried on most of the recessions that have taken place in these last few decades.