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New Deal Dbq

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After the prosperous 1920’s, America headed into what would be none as the Great Depression. The economy crashed and the standard of living for majority Americans was the lowest it has ever been before. America needed a hero, and fortunately, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected into office in 1933. He immediately began working on ways to get out of the depression, and he came up with what would be known as the New Deal. The New Deal was praised for how it treated problems involving unemployment, poverty, and other concerns. It did things such as make new jobs, through the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). By creating new jobs, people were helped physically, mentally and socially. After the Stock Market …show more content…

It is a proven fact that this plan was the best way because it worked. It successfully pulled America out of the Great Depression by creating jobs, which helped in a variety of ways. Also I believe that by creating jobs, the New Deal was the perfect mix between rugged individualism and also direct relief. He did not directly give people money to solve their problems, but instead he supplied jobs to them to allow them to earn it themselves. This kept people's integrity and still allowed them to start earning money again. To create these jobs though, FDR had to create America’s first federal deficit. I believe that the only way for him to create as many jobs and services as he did was to create the new national debt. It was impossible to afford the needed agencies and such in the amount of time he wanted use. The fact that his plan was able to bring America out of the Great Depression shows that the deficit spending was worth it. Yet, I think if deficit spending was never used the jobs would have still been created, just slower. I do believe that without the New Deal, America would have been able to get out of the the Great Depression, but it would have taken much longer. I don’t believe many president would have had the guts to be use deficit spending in order to create the needed jobs as fast as Franklin Delano Roosevelt …show more content…

Yet even with this sixteen trillion dollar debt, the U.S. government continues to help support citizens in need through social security. America need to figure out a way to reduce the debt, and still be able to continue to help support the needy. To do this, I believe the main focus should be on the national debt. As long as the national debt begins to be reduced, we can continue to help the needy as we are now. To reduce the national debt, I think the first most logical thing is to tax the people who can afford to be taxed. The government should set a certain amount of money earned annually as the barrier to determine your taxes. Below the barrier and you pay an average amount of taxes. If above, it means you can still easily live off your earnings even if you are taxed higher rates than most others. Another way is raise tariffs on the imports coming in, but not so high that we can’t sell exports out. With both of these options, it would reduce the national debt, and allow us to supply direct relief to the needy. Also, By giving the needy direct relief is not allowing them to be lasy and do nothing, but the whole reason of helping them is that they can not help themselves earn money, whether it is due to age or due to a disability. So these people who can’t work for some

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