Almost no leftist program has helped people, and the only right wing programs that have helped people only worked by erasing the previous leftist plan that didn't work.
FDR spent his entire presidency playing fucking wack-a-mole with the economy. "Derp, pork is too cheap and farmers aren't making money. Well, let me commit a pig holocaust. Tractor tires are too cheap and tire companies aren't making more money? Well, let me set the price artificially high. Derp derp derp."