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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: tejek who wrote (54326)1/11/2007 10:20:49 AM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (3) of 90947
 
If you told any intelligent, educated, non ideologue adult that the New Deal was an unmitigated failure, they would laugh in your face .

Almost all of the "New Deal" initiatives were ultimately ruled as unconstitutional. That is why FDR made his brazen effort to pack the Supreme Court with additional justices. As late as 1941 the Depression lingered on. The Depression only lifted with the start of WWII and the subsequent war economy.

The fact that the New Deal was a technical failure does not diminish FDR's magnificent achievement in boosting the spirits of Americans through that painful decade. The Depression itself was a worldwide phenomenon that was beyond "fixing" by any one nation or leader.

No intelligent and knowledgeable person would laugh at the assertion that the New Deal (in and of itself) was an unmitigated failure.
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