Is Franklin Roosevelt Revolutionary or Conservative?

Question by jason: Is Franklin Roosevelt Revolutionary or Conservative?
In your opinions Is Franklin Roosevelt Revolutionary or Conservative? During the Great Depression he had legislated many the acts to improve the economy ..as the Farm Security Administration was an effort during the Depression to combat rural poverty. The FSA stressed “rural rehabilitation” efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming. Critics, including the Farm Bureau strongly opposed the FSA as an experiment in collectivizing agriculture — that is, in bringing farmers together to work on large government-owned farms using modern techniques under the supervision of experts. The program failed because the farmers wanted ownership; after the Conservative coalition took control of Congress it transformed the FSA into a program to help poor farmers buy land, and continues in operation in the 21st century as the Farmers Home Administration.

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Answer by Wolf
He was the kind of president that actually did things because he was looking into the best interests of the country and not for the best interests of his party like Rep and Dems do now.

Answer by Leroy J
I consider FDR’s programs drastic measures for drastic times. However, those government programs are way past their due date and we need to get back to free enterprise. Unfortunately, the government is expanding every day sucking up hard earned money and churning out slow-moving, innefficient welfare programs.

One example is ethanol. All of my aunts and uncles who farm think it’s going to save the world. If it were left to free enterprise, ethanol would not be an economical option, but the government takes tax dollars, gives it to farmers to grow ethanol corn, and uses even more tax dollars to lower the price of E85.

The result…1) Skyrocketing food prices because feed corn is being consumed at a tremendous rate as well as fields that were devoted to other foods being replaced w/ ethanol corn.

2) More pollution..after all of the processing and planting and harvesting and use in your vehicle, ethanol is 15% more polluting than pure gasoline.

That’s what government programs do. FDR is the grand daddy of government programs.

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