(Klein) President Roosevelt took many of these ideas and invested money in public works to give people jobs, as well as giving subsidies to farms to maintain food supplies constant and accessible. Supporters of this approach argue that it was successful, and many of the programs established during the New Deal softened the blow of the 2009 recession decades later. While these reforms did little to prevent the recession from occurring, they allowed people to weather the storm for a few years while the economy stabilized. Removing them would only leave open the people who would be most hurt in another