Federal Government In The 1930's Analysis

During his presidency, Roosevelt started a beginning of change in the role of the federal government. Most of his new ideas aimed at creating new jobs almost always require the assistance of government fundings. Because of this, the government started spending more and more money in the 1930’s than it was recieving, this which as a reprocution ended uo creating a huge deficit. Some people during this period, believed that the government was now pushing its powers way too far, disreguarding what the Federal Government has done and started critisizing. “The authority of the federal government may not be pushed to such an extreme” (Document. F). Later, the government gave worker’s the right to collect bargains and form unions. Businesses and employers did not appreciate this either, so they also critisized about the governments’ overuse of power “…have no right to transgress the law which gives to the workers the right of self-organization and collective bargaining” (Document.
Some administrations engaged themselves in deficit spending, but none were on the scale of what FDR’s administration set out to do in the 1930's. As displayed in a poster publicizing "A monthly check to you", the Social Security Act of 1935 allowed citizens that are over the age of 65 a monthly check, a program that still run today. American’s view changed with the promoting of this act, and this alterred the preception of the people on the role of government. One of the reasons for the passing of the Social Security Act was so that the younger generation would get a change at working. This would liberate the older generation of their work, but still get paid. Also the development of advertisement was used to publicize the act and used to notify people that after retirement, they can get paid “...a monthly check to you-“ (Document.