why do you think some people opposed the new deal?

Question

the new deal with roosevelt

Answer 1

Hmmm .... not sure which new deal you mean, but whatever it is, I would think they opposed it because they didn't like it..

Answer 2

Business, industrialists, and the wealthy opposed the new deal. The idea of using their taxes to help the down-trodden get back on their feet bordered on socialism. What they failed to realize at the time was that FDR was preventing a dangerous social uprising among the hungry, destitute, and homeless that had the ability to create a true socialist government. FDR, himself a wealthy man, was also smart enough to understand that helping these people work for an honest days wages would in the future create a strong middle class which is the backbone of a stable society.

Answer 3

I think the same arguments are heard today regarding government programs. Many think they are "wasteful spending" and encourage corruption and fraud.

I remember seeing a cartoon from the time showing a WPA worker asleep, and a co-worker yells, "Hey, wake up, it's quittin' time!"

Nonetheless, many of the New Deal programs did great things for this country, some of them still in use today!

Answer 4

Because it would have been a very bad deal to them. Look at the proportion business gives to Social Security. Business leaders had to be almost forced into that one.

Answer 5

I'm sure those who were lazy or socialists loved it. Those who worked for a living probably felt that others should have to work, too. I'm not too keen on my neighbor making the same money I am when I work hard and he leans on a shovel all day. Oh, and FDR was an idiot.

Answer 6

social darwinists didn't (and still don't) believe everyone should have a fair chance; everything should be at the whim of the market.

When my grandmother, who worked hard all her life, lost her life savings in a bank rush, to them that's just the tough cookies of a market "correction."