![The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-alternatives-to-the-stimulus-packages-were-to-do-nothing-or-worse-effecti.jpg)
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