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New Deal Dbq

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Commager think there is no such thing as the “Roosevelt revolution” as someone may have called it during the era of 1933’s. He described Roosevelt as “though clearly a leader…was an instrument of the people’s will rather than a creator of, or a dictator to…” From here you can see that he does not believe Roosevelt was the only one led/helped Americans to gets recover from Great Depression, rather, he believed he also was used by the people to do their wills. He disapproved the idea of calling Roosevelt a dictator, he thinks he’s just a strong executive, who was willing to helped America with energy and boldness. As he said in the paragraph, “The roots of the New Deal go deep down into our past,” he thinks the New Deal is not something new people …show more content…

He thinks Roosevelt did not help to restore American economy, rather, he changes it to what the economic system was like in Europe before WWI, in which government controlled everything (business, taxes, and borrow money from citizens to invest). He believed Roosevelt did not create a new economy, he simply just substituted with an old one which was a threat to American traditional (private system) economy. He also thinks the New Deal made the country in huge debt ($19 billion before Roosevelt, $250 billion after Roosevelt, and government budget of $40 billion instead of $4 billion before Roosevelt). He used examples like the doubled-prices-inflation and how it reduced the lower-paid employed workers to a state of poverty as bad as that of the unemployed in the depression to show how the New Deal is hurting the economy. He also talked about how more people are on various kinds of government relief than when the country had 11 million unemployed, and how bureaucrats are in every field of life. With all that, he argued, the President and his policies is still calling for more power, more price-fixing, more regulation, and more billions. Same thing with the political, he thinks Roosevelt did not restore the political system to its full strength, he changed it instead. He uses examples like how he is trying to break down the power of Congress and put it all in his own hand. In conclusion,

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