American history continues into the 1930s and the Great Depression.
Dealing With the New Deal by Michael Doyle Had Coolidge been in power for Wall Street's fall The safe bet is he would have done little or nothing at all Instead Herbert Hoover shaped government into an active role As America's economy spiraled down and out of control One in four found themselves downtrodden and unemployed Confidence by consumers and investors was utterly destroyed The Hawley-Smoot Tariff damaged nearly everyone While the Reconstruction and Finance Company left finance undone The thought had been that through infrastructure restoration The cycle would continue until at last feeding the nation This was seen by the unwashed masses as callous and blind Until Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected and put this behind FDR was seen as frail of body and undeveloped as to his mind This could be seen in his polio and hodge podge policies we find This cheery sense of Happy Days had again was as if truly blind A cheerful optimism perhaps didn't wake him to these being behind Even Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes complimented his temperament Bold persistent experimentation changed the core of our government FDR recognized no bounds as to Federal planning and power Then in the darkest depths of the Depression's hours Bent on driving money changers from the temple of civilization FDR's first inaugural set out the best of his rationalization By which he immediately took executive war powers Thought yet still at peace to wrest the economy through these hours Establishing multiple programs in his first 100 days FDR leaned on his experts in as many different ways Conflicted, not orderly, he patched together the economy Then in fireside chats he cozily established his legacy Many had lost their homes and suffered real reasons for grief And so.. being a progressive, he created agencies for relief An alphabet soup creating meaningful employment Many of these were make work jobs in reliance on the government The unemployment rate never dipped below 10% in these years The jobs given may have been well meant to comfort the tears Of frustration and quite often against the Constitution Yet, all of this was meant to revive the economy of our nation The NRA did its very best from its socialist heart To ensure our nation did not and would not fall apart Trying to reduce the issues of simplicity Our government was simply overwhelmed by the complexity This complete and deep change in top-down economy Was painted as being a war effort unto victory The moral equivalent of war did bring its solidarity But it was unconstitutional and often quite contrary It was the greatest power grab in all of American history As such it faced opposition from multiple sides of integrity FDR set out on a second hundred days of rapid legislation Creating as his cornerstone, the Social Security Administration It hadn't meant to be enough to actually live on But it crossed the redline of government intrusion on The People and yet FDR won resounding reelection Facing stiff opposition, he sought the Supreme Court's direction Until the public saw this as executive overreach quite clearly A sharp Roosevelt Recession in 1937 hurt the nation dearly Seeing the cause and effect the People felt the distress The elections of 1938 halted the New Deal's progress The New Deal had not restored the feet of our country Nor had it given robust recovery to our ailing economy This would not be done by some moral equivalent to war But when the coming of actual war came knocking on our door (c) April 6, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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