Why do conservatives want to undo FDR's legacy?

Question

If it wan't for him, we'd be living in the times of Scrooge and Marley, with no middle class, just the mass of poor, and a few rich bosses. Is this what they really want to go back to? And if you can't answer intelligently, do me a favor, don't.

Than you Alex B.,
But there is a balance no. We can't have NO regulations. Why do you think all this E. Coli is popping up. It's called deregulation, a favorite pastime that republicans engage in to please their big money contributors. But who get's hurt? Ordinary people. Deregulation can get pretty ugly, as Upton Sinclair quite rightly pointed out long ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair

Andy G.
Do really believe that? The middle class was stronger during Carter, shrunk during the Reagan/Bush years, came back a bit with Clinton, and is now shrinking again. These are facts. What you are saying is just not true. It is the republican war against organized labor that hurts the middle class, and they have been fighting that war -- and winning -- for a very long time. The tax burden on the middle class has not really changed in the past 30 years. Yet the taxes that the rich have been compelled to pay has gone down considerably. This decreases -- not increases, as econ liars would have you believe -- gov't revenue and makes things like universal health care coverage impossible -- something that would greatly HELP the middle class.

Answer 1

Excellent question!!! This is something I have been saying since the mid-90s when I first started noticing the R party basically attempting to reverse or alter every aspect of FDR's New Deal.

They don't realize that The New Deal is what saved this country after the Great Depression from turning into a 3rd world country with the most powerful families controlling it.

As far as why? I have no clue. It is destroying our psuedo-capitalist-socialist structure that has made us the greatest superpower today.

They don't realize that if you don't take care of the lesser-class to some degree, you end up with high crime and an overall miserable apsect of society. Now some might not care but they also don't realize that over time, that spreads to the middle class and you end up with higher crime with less of a conscious.

Think about it... the lower workers are the ones making the corporations rich then after so many years of barely scraping by, they will eventually strike back. And like I said, with no remorse. Have you ever heard someone say, "I don't feel bad at all about ripping off a corporation?" I've heard this. It's like that but to the extreme.

Answer 2

Lets use boxes as an example, the poor box, the middle box and the upper box, they are stacked on the floor and we want to move all of them to another place. If you go over and just lift the top box the other two do not move. But if you lift the stack from the bottom then all of them move including the top box. In real life the repuglicans with their supply side economics's move the top box and the others stay or shrink. FDR lifted from the bottom by taxing the rich and reinvesting it into jobs and programs for the poor. What this does is put money into the poor pocket and they spend and the rich get their money back and then some. Bill Clinton did a modified version of this and just look at the boom, if you wasn't working in the 90's it was your fault. Ronald Reagan is a good example of trickle down economics that don't work, the largest most wide spread recession since the depression. Supply side economics's does not work for the country as a whole it just lifts the rich and large corporations for a short term.

Answer 3

Both parties need to take a more moderate approach.

When the republicans lost site and believed their principals are in every-body's interest they lost at the poles. The Democrats will probably make the same mistake. They will start thinking that the US in now anti-war, ant-gun, pro-abortion, etc ... and start pushing to the left (at which point they will pass the torch back). Just take a look at H. Clinton (she now walks the center line, even though she is clearly left). She gets it, but most of the other Dems won't. Hopefully this political round will swing some American protectionism back to the working class, just not too much to stagnate the global free market.

Answer 4

FDR was a socialists and socialism kills Capitalism/economic freedoms and that eventually hurts everyone including the middle class and the poor. The only reason FDR's programs seemed like they helped was because WW2 came along and restarted the US economy. No WW2 & FDR is a flop. Free markets, low taxes (for everyone), & less Govt. control means stronger economies and better lives for everyone. Just ask the 300 million new middle class workers in China who are no longer poor about the benefits of free markets/Capitalism vs Socialism.

Answer 5

It is not the conservatives, but the democrats absurdly high tax hikes the destroy the middle class. Case proven, just look back to Jimmy Carter's reign of terror on the middle class.

Answer 6

Normally there has to be an intelligent question for there to be an intelligent answer. Kind of like ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer accept in reverse.

Answer 7

Because FDR's plan was to make the government fix everything, no personal responsibility, it was to be a society in which everyone turned to the government for every need, this would allow for more government regulations, laws and intrusions into our daily lives. FDR's plan was too much government, not enough personal responsibility

Answer 8

Mostly greed.