Joe Biden’s spending spree is a sign that in the US big government is back

Joe Biden’s spending spree is a sign that in the US big government is back

For years American presidents have been judged by their first 100 days in office. That measure of political vigour came as a result of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's remarkable first 100 days in 1933 during the Great Depression. It was a time when a quarter of Americans were unemployed; people queued up at soup kitchens; shanty towns sprang up on the edges of US cities.



The 1930s American song Brother can you spare a dime captures the hopelessness of the period. The words touch the heart even now, a worker lamenting the death of the American dream and reduced to begging: “They used