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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (54328)	1/12/2007 4:02:51 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) 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. I am not sure that's accurate. A number of components of the New Deal have survived to this day: the SEC, the TVA, the FDIC, SS, etc. That is why FDR made his brazen effort to pack the Supreme Court with additional justices. He did try but failed: "By 1934, the Supreme Court began declaring significant parts of the New Deal unconstitutional. This led Roosevelt to propose the Court-packing Bill in 1937. Although the bill failed, the Supreme Court started upholding New Deal laws. By 1942, the Supreme Court had almost completely abandoned its "judicial activism" of striking down congressional laws, as accused by New Deal supporters. The Supreme Court ruled in Wickard v. Filburn that the Commerce Clause covered almost all such regulation allowing the unnecessary expansion of federal power to make the New Deal "constitutional." en.wikipedia.org 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. Most economists say recovery from the Depression began in the late thirties but you're right we didn't reach full employment until 1941. 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. I agree with you that FDR was an amazing president. No intelligent and knowledgeable person would laugh at the assertion that the New Deal (in and of itself) was an unmitigated failure. Agreed.

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