President Roosevelt's Ideas During The Great Depression

During the Depression, each president proposed different ideas for ending the horrible economic struggle. But were either of them the right course of action, or was there another, unique way that would have gotten the American people out of the crisis much earlier? Both President Hoover and President Roosevelt’s ideas for stopping the Depression involved opinions on federal funding and private donations to feed the millions of needy mouths in America. But which was more effective? Hoover believed that the way to beat the Depression was through private party donations. In other words, he felt that having the US Government supply the American people with loans would, in total, create less money for the people to get back on their feet: “The opening of the doors of the Federal Treasury is likely to stifle [private] giving and
Groups created like the CCC and the CWA were used to put millions of single, unemployed men to work building/improving roads, building parks, and maintaining forests. By getting people working, Roosevelt felt that this was the first step to getting the powerful machine that is the American economy back up and running. In his second inaugural speech, Roosevelt states that the founding fathers created a government fit to handle the problems which it is presented, for all time to come: “At [the] convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solution”(Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wednesday, January 20, 1937). In this speech, Roosevelt completely discredits President Hoover’s philosophy. Roosevelt basically states that the problem that is the Depression is to much for private parties to