2007-11-26 07:19:23 · 18 answers · asked by JonB 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It ushered in a feeling that government owed the people a living. It wasn't just an economic bandaid that he proposed to Congress when they gave him the blank check. We're still digging out from under it and unfortunately, some people never will escape the fence holding them safely within Mother's loving arms.
2007-11-26 07:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Many of his plans were supposed to have time limits that ended up getting dropped.
The point was to help people recover from the Depression, which was caused by unrestrained capitalism more than anything else. Unfortunately to do so a bit of socialism was required (a balance is better, but when you go to one extreme you end up having to compensate by going too far to the other for awhile). Had time limits been imposed there would have been no problem.
So yes, to some degree; but only as much as Lincoln's abuses were the beginning of a far too liberal and controlling federal gov't in the US. Both parties have screwed up many times. Neither is right, neither is wrong. The answer, as always, is somewhere in between.
2007-11-26 07:29:04 · answer #2 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
At the time the fastest growing political parties in the US were the Communist and Nazi parties. The fastest growing "Social" organization was the Ku Klux Klan. This society was ripe for violent revolution. The New Deal gave people hope that change would allow them to have a life again.
What has killed individual responsibility is the psycho-babble of you didn't do wrong, your upbringing made you that way!
The Dr. Spock generation also held that punishment was the wrong way. Ergo, you are not responsible, you shouldn't be punished.
Then couple with the welfare feeling that the world "OWES" you. And you get a society that believes that they are owed everything and responsible for nothing. It doesn't work that way. The Welfare Society was created in the 50's (Eisenhower was president in 1952) and then the psycho-babble of the era, and the Dr. Spock mentality...BINGO.
2007-11-26 07:33:41 · answer #3 · answered by k_l_parrish 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Read The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes, it details the harm the new deal has done to America
2007-11-26 07:28:56 · answer #4 · answered by Tip 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No the Great Depression was the end of Personal Responsibility for conservatives, bankers, and businessmen in this country.
2007-11-26 07:46:32 · answer #5 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No it was a good man trying to help people who were suffering due to the greed of the upper class and the GOP.
franticscramble, you make absolutely no effort to present anything but an extreme point of view written by people who didn't live in the dustbowl. Ask anyone who had a small business during the 1930s, and I doubt they'll agree with you.
FDR wasn't looking out for the American people? It's always taxes that cause all evils, right?
2007-11-26 07:27:00 · answer #6 · answered by chemcook 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It opened the door to a global empire, an increasingly policed state, and an increasingly controlled population.
Of course that has nothing to do with personal responsibility! Or freedom for that matter...
2007-11-26 07:28:46 · answer #7 · answered by freedom first 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Oh yes. Nobody has any responsibility at all!
How can anyone expect someone to be responsible when economic forces were beyond their control or ability to deal with? What's wrong with helping real people, instead of just greedy corporations?
2007-11-26 07:26:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
NO... but it helped alot of people.. since the Depression had nothing to do with personal responsibility... it was a horrible thing that happened to alot of hard working people
2007-11-26 07:43:28 · answer #9 · answered by katjha2005 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The "New Deal" certaintly helped to end personal responsibility as well as personal freedom.
2007-11-26 07:24:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋