shmogie
Well-Known Member
Tell that to literally all of Europe.[/QUOTE]
It didn't end the depression, but it buffered its effects. It kept Americans employed -- and fed.
The new deal was massive federal welfare program, one can certainly argue that it was needed, but the money going out was taxpayer money from a smaller and smaller tax base. I could not have been sustained for any length of time.
The big secret of the new deal is the most massive quid pro quo ever in American politics.
With all these programs to control, and all the money involved in making them work, Roosevelt demanded that senators, congressmen, governors, and state legislatures agree to his political demands, or their states would not receive the largesse of the American taxpayer.
He, in essence, used taxpayer money to finance the political agenda of the democrat party, on a massive scale.
So, these new ideas, weren't new, doling out tax money was the key, and that had been around for a long time.
They were new however,in one area, Out of work hungry people were used as hostages to ensure democrat demands in a large variety of areas in the states.
Money and programs flowed unhindered in Democrat states, it didn't flow in Republican states, until they bowed to the will of Roosevelt and the Democratic party.
An early example of the Democrat adage," never let a disaster go unexploited".
You can see it at play today in the Corona virus thing, Politics is everything to the Democrat party, anytime, anywhere, over anything.