The New Deal

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This paper views some of the New Deal legislation from a conservative perspective, presenting the premise that FDR's response to the Great Depression was the genesis of Federal over-involvement in the lives of the American citizenry.

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"In the early 1920's, the United State's economy was soaring, and many investors felt confident. People began to pour money into banks and the stock market, knowing the country was prospering, thus seeking to profit from the country's good fortune. The prosperous times of the country began to fade and citizens faced being laid off. Panic ensued, and many people went to banks and took out their savings. This was one of the factors that caused the country to fall into the Great Depression because there weren't any funds to help people get back on their feet. For the most part the Roosevelt years had paved the groundwork for the New Deal to help poor Americans with some kind of relief: due to the number of people that were unemployed and had no means of providing for their families. The New Deal legislation was intended to get the nation's economy back on track. The Roosevelt administration got a boost in the 1930's when it gained the overwhelming majority in Congress. Roosevelt had proposed a staggering array of emergency measures in his early months in office and most of them were passed by a large margin. The measures often reflected different and contradictory policy perspectives. But with all the confusion these measures would have, the contours of depression fighting strategy emerged. These strategies involved three components: industrial recovery, agricultural recovery, and short-term emergency relief for the jobless. The New Deal led to the immense growth of government and the demise of the individual. The New Deal impacted the individual negatively by allowing government to affect almost every aspect of his life and allowing government to have the final say in many matters that would normally be the responsibility of the individual."

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