Roosevelt: The New Deal

The federal government can make are break a country, and there are many different ways to govern people. In the United States prior to the Great Depression the federal government took the laissez faire approach to running the economy. The government was not too excited to get involve with the financial aspects of the country. When the stock market crashed and the economy was in shambles the federal government had to take a different approach to how the country’s money should be run. President Franklin Roosevelt was the driving force in this shift of government. When Roosevelt came into office in 1932 he had a new vision for the country. The president before him, J Edger Hoover, took the trickle down approach by not stimulating the poor
He believes that a good country is nothing without it’s people. With the people in shambles and early scraping by, it is the governments job to help them get back on their feet as much as they can. This approach would no even be considered by earlier Presidents like Coolidge, or Theodore Roosevelt. These Presidents would have just tried to help the businesses or tried to help labor conditions of the workers not help them get payed more. Franklin Roosevelt felt that his people deserved more and that some people were not at fault for their loss, but that they had some bad luck and their money was in the wrong place at the wrong time. By focusing on the domestic money problems before the international, Roosevelt showed that he was a peoples President and that they could trust him to help them. Later in his “First Inaugural Address” he brings up the point “In the field of world policy I
These programs are often called alphabet soup, due to all the acronyms that the programs are called. The most successful of these was the CCC or the Civilian Conservation Corps. This was a program that helped young men who were veterans of World War I and me within their twenties and thirties to work in public works projects. They were payed a dollar a day and most of it was sent home to their families to help them get by, however the workers were given some money to help them while where were working in these programs. The program lasted about six months and men could realist for another program. the men worked on reforesting from the devastation of the Dust Bowl and they also worked on roads and general works to help the country stay beautiful and clean after all of the pollution that was happening due to the industrial age. The camps were run in the army style and and the members were fed well. (American Experience, Civilian Conservation Corps). These men were helping the nation become a better place and it also gave them something to do. Since many men had come back form World War I the job market was very competitive and the influx of eligible workers was not helping. This program got a lot of men working on projects that not everyone was willing to do. No one wanted to reforest the plains because it would not