How the New Deal Crippled America

It’s a funny thing how you go through school and always believe in one particular way only because there were no other view points that were presented. I remember hearing the wonderful story of George Washington and the cherry tree or how Columbus was the first one to discover the Americas. My childhood, like many others, is filled with these dramatized stories that come at either from a teacher’s bias or just plain ignorance. One of the greatest dramatizations in my opinion is how wonderful “The New Deal” was. I remember growing up and hearing about how FDR single handedly pulled the nation out from the brink of despair and saved us from the Great Depression. I remember thinking of how great of a president FDR must have been in order for just one person to be able to save an entire country. I mean he was president for FOUR TERMS!!! Crazy, how can a president be elected FOUR TIMES without being the best president ever? If he would have come back from the dead, well I would have to vote for him. However, as is often the case, we grow older and usually a little bit wiser. The New Deal (ND), has often been viewed by many as one of the most innovated strings of government programs ever to have been created. To this I’ll agree, it may have been one of the most innovated strings of GOVERNMENT programs ever to have been created but honestly, is that really saying anything?

Now, I could point out how the ND actually extended the depression as opposed to bringing it out of it or how many of the ND programs were later found to be unconstitutional. However, you can look all of these topics online and you’ll find recent research that covers these topics quite well. The point of today’s discussion will to be focus on how the ND has crippled America.

Crippled America? What? How could you say such a blasphemous sentence? All FDR did was bring us out of the Great Depression, and this is how you want to repay him, by saying the ND crippled America? Well…it did. I don’t know how else to put it. Let’s just say for a moment that the ND actually helped America to get out of the depression. Even if it did, from that point forward, the ND has made many of Americans forever enslaved to welfare. On top of that, it has given almost all Americans the sense of entitlement that the government “owed them” something; whether it be a retirement program, housing, food, or clothing. People need to realize that all of this money is not free, it comes from someone else who is working hard for their wages. This money that you are getting through these government programs doesn’t come from the All Compassionate Big Brother Government, it comes from the regular working class (obviously this includes the rich). So not only has the government hooked many of the poorer Americans on this “welfare cocaine” it has infused in the minds of many more Americans this sense of entitlement.

The one thing that people know, but just don’t really realize is the fact that the GOVERNMENT DOES NOT MAKE MONEY! It doesn’t. It doesn’t work at Subway on the weekends, nor does it greet people at Wal*Mart as they walk in. All of the money it receives is from us, the tax payer. If they don’t have that money, then they borrow from other countries or just make more of it (which, if you don’t know, shoots up inflation and lowers the power of the dollar). Why can’t people just go out, and work their tails off and be good? I can’t tell you the number of times I have heard the argument “some people are just put into a position which they can’t get out of.” This argument that people are born into a situation that is hopeless is just the kind of mentality the ND started. It’s like many Christian churches who state that we are born “either saved or damn.” Well, if I’m born damned, what motivation do I have to be good? None! The same thing applies to welfare. If you tell people that they are in a situation that they just can’t help, they lose that hope; the hope that inspires all of us for something better. Isn’t it funny that there are hundreds of thousands of refuges or immigrants who come from many of the Asian countries such as Cambodia, China, or Korea who come here, knowing very little English, find a way to make it? They don’t know how the government programs work so they skip it. They just go out and work their tails off. They don’t have any credit, so they only buy what they can pay for in cash (which isn’t a bad idea for those of us who do have credit). If they don’t have money for it, THEY DON’T BUY IT. These families end up raising up great kids who contribute greatly to our country. If people who can’t speak English at first and have NOTHING, no family, no credit, no money, no housing, no cars and so forth. If these people can make it, people who grow up poor, regardless of their situation, can also make it. We need to stop rewarding mediocrity.

The New Deal has crippled the mindset of Americans and in so doing, has crippled the very ideals that made this nation strong. Those poorer Americans, who refuse to let this mindset stick, end up having a great careers and a happy wonderful life. Everyone has problems, everyone has their down time but if everyone just bucked up and rose to those challenges; we wouldn’t need 95% of the government programs that exist today. Goodnight everyone and remember to save trees, conserve poop!