The domestic legislation of the New Deal period was based on the idea that the federal government should?

1. favor big business over labor and farming


2. assume some responsibility for the welfare of people


3. own and operate the major industries of the country


4. require local communities to be responsible for social welfare programs|||the New Deal was an abysmal failure. almost all of today's economists agree that Franklin Roosevelt extended the Great Depression at least 7 years longer than it needed to last. the New Deal failed because it interfered with natural market forces that would've corrected themselves sooner than later. for example, for every government job that was created, more jobs were lost in the private sector, which were the only jobs that could've helped revive the economy.





today, Obama is taking us down the same path that Roosevelt took in 1933. also, for the record, FDR was not a good president. he was an aspiring dictator who ruled for longer than what was gentlemanly (4 terms) and tried to circumvent the Constitution by packing the Supreme Court with Democrats (1937 Judiciary Reorganization Bill). he was a communist sympathizer who cozied up with Stalin and allowed the Soviets to take East Berlin. finally, his internment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans was one of the worst civil rights violations in U.S. history.|||2. I suppose this is part of a multiple choice test, the other answers can be eliminated.





1. can be eliminated as the new deal rationed labor and put in place farm price supports.





3. can be eliminated for the most part, exception for the Tennessee Valley Authority. The New Deal was regulatory, not socialist.





4. can be eliminated because the New Deal was federal legislation and by and large was administered by the federal government.