Franklin Roosevelts New Deal program had a significant impact upon American society?

Question

Franklin Roosevelts New Deal program had a significant impact upon American society
What were the goals of the New Deal and how did it ultimately transform the political economic and social landscape of the United States?
Do you think this change was inherently radical or conservative?

list source

Answer 1

I'd like to put this answer in a political and economics context. We know socially the effects of the "New Deal" on society. Americans were using the "Classical Model of Economics." Every country chooses a 'model' they feel will give them the best results. Following Adam Smith's advice, we adopted a 'model' which was driven 'by the supply side.' FDR needed to get people to start spending money FAST. If you look closely at the programs, they were all about getting people money, so they would 'buy' on the economy. We switched at that point to Keynes Model of economics were the economy would be driven by the 'demand side of model.' We used this model til the 70's when 'stagflation occurred' (the model didn't predict a rising economy with a simultaneous rising unemployment, so it was switched to a monetarist system) Interesting is the President asked for and got a substantial increase in presidential powers, 'as if an enemy was attacking the US' (something similar to that statement). This is the very first time a Sitting President had enormous amounts of power. Since that point presidents try to accumulate more power sometimes referred to as "presidential imperialism."

Answer 2

The¨New Deal¨was a radical change at the time, but today it would be considered liberal, just in the way that it created jobs as a social service. Among other things, it included a fix for dissolvent banks during the depression, a fix which we still rely upon today for maintaining solid banking in the USA (you´re money´s still there when you go to get it out). If you´re looking for a quote for the goals: ¨relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy ¨.

Answer 3

From the time of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933 to the beginning of WWII eight years later, the federal government engaged in a broad and diverse series of experiments designed to relieve the distress of unemployment and poverty; to reform the economy to prevent future crises; and to bring the Great Depression itself to an end. It had only partial success in all those efforts.

Unemployment and poverty remained high throughout the New Deal, although many federal programs provided assistance to millions of people who would otherwise have had none. The structure of the American economy remained essentially the same as it had been in earlier years, although there were by the end of the New Deal some important new regulatory agencies in Washington - and an important new role for organized labor. Nothing the New Deal did ended the Great Depression, but some of its policies kept it from getting worse - and some of them pointed the way toward more effective economic policies in the future.

Perhaps the most important legacy of the New Deal was to create a sense of possibilities among many Americans, to persuade them that the fortunes of individuals need not be left entirely to chance or to the workings of an unregulated market. many Americans emerged from the 1930's convinced that individuals deserved some protections from the unpredictability and instability of the modern economy, and that the New Deal - for all its limitations 0 had demonstrated the value of enlisting government in the effort to provide those protections.