Compare And Contrast Reagan And Fdr

Ronald Reagan once famously said, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem.” In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president, due to the Great Depression. He came up with something to help the people of America called The New Deal. It was meant to help the unemployed and starving. Sounds great, but what if those goal never came through? Both of those presidents, Reagan and FDR, are thought to be some of the greatest presidents ever. Which one was right? The new deal was based on government and how it was trying to help people. I think FDR’s intentions were great, but the New Deal ended up being a failure. It was a failure because it excluded people, Left half of the country starving
They tried to help with these things, but did not succeed, due to lack of money, and of course, the Great Depression. Now, to be fair, president Hoover did not even try to help out, so it is not fair to blame the people for believing that it would work. The new deal can be compared to a puzzle. There were just a few pieces missing that could have made the new deal possibly work . “The new deal fell far short of perfection. It’s quite possible that the economy might have grown even faster than it did and that the 1937-1938 recession might have been averted has Roosevelt avoided some key errors and placed more confidence in fiscal stimulus. Early on, the New Deal put to much public power in private hands…” (Learning from the new deal’s mistakes, The American Project.) What would have happened, had they been there? For example, maybe it could have been non-discriminatory, and been smarter about who to employ. This didn’t happen however, so the new deal was an absolute failure because it excluded people, left more than half of the country starving as well as unemployed, and made temporary acts