why do you think some people opposed the new deal?
831670
Hmmm .... not sure which new deal you mean, but whatever it is, I would think they opposed it because they didn't like it..
856882
That depends on your point of view.  The correct answer is that it can be seen as all three.\n\nSee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Deal for more information on the New Deal\n\nGood Luck!!!
174318
My belief is that many people who were opposing Bush were living in an echo-chamber and were only speaking to people who opposed Bush. This was particularly strong in deep red areas such as academia and the media and ignored the strong level of support for Bush in the blue states. \n\nPauline Kael is alleged to have said that she couldn't understand how Nixon won in 1972 because she didn't know anyone who voted for. We tend to associate with those who we feel comfortable with who often share our political and social views. It doesn't matter whether you are a Hollywood actor or a Kansas farmer, you tend to think the views of you and your peers are the views of the nation. Polls for a couple of months before the election showed Bush with a clear but narrow lead in the election. Further, it seems that Bush won by increasing the turnout of his supporters more than Kerry did.
529855
Oh, now I'm impressed. If you were to cut and paste a little bit from some of these answers, you'd almost have the facts. \n\nI am confused as to who the f*ck "reggin" is, and just how we would have been Communist had Washington served a third term, seeing as Communism wasn't even an evil gleam in any dictator's eye back then.\n\nThat being said, I agree with scratching out that ludicrous 22nd amendment. It should only apply to Democrats anyway, since the only reason it was ratified was because FDR's dumb *ss stayed in office so long.
36154
I remember reading about that before that even thought eh Democrats controlled Congress back then a lot of the Democrats in Congress were against the Civil Rights act but a lot of the Republicans in Congress favored it (some of the Democrats who opposed the Act were upset with Kennedy for his fight for Civil Rights).\n\nDid any Republicans voted against the act? yes of course im not saying that all Republicans supported it but the number that did was certainly a high number.\n\nMost Republicans in Congress favored the act but most Democrats in Congress opposed, but the number on both sides that voted in favor of it was enough to pass it.
635351
The war in Viet Nam.  Many people were against it on principle, as I was at the time.  (Actually, I was more against the draft than the war per se, even then.)  Many others felt the government should not have limited the military so much, and let them get in, win it, and get out.  I have come to that view myself.  Still others were very supportive of the troops, but not necessarily the government policy.  That's also something I agree with today.\n\nI am remembering that when I was involved in the anti-war movement, there were a surprising number of socialists and communists involved, and the communists especially always managed to come up with money or supplies for protesters, or printing presses, etc.  Nowadays I wonder how much of that money had its origins in Moscow.
132999
A lot of people dislike Liberals because they have ideas that are not based specifically around faith and religion. Some people also think that just because they are not as conservitive that they will make decisions too quick and make a mess of the world. People just figure, "Better be conservitive and safe then liberal and on edge and sorry!"
885185
yes the idea of my investments and stocks falling,  my taxes going up and unemployment getting worst and the Big Macs going up in price just thrills me to death\n\nBut this is the problem, people don't get it, it is not the people making 100,000 or 200,000,  the tax cuts for business made jobs for people, it has brought more tax revenues in that ever before in the history of the US.  The democrats will be raising taxes on the middle class to pay for its programs.\n\nThis is why they won, normal everyday people have merley believed lies and adds and did not actually research anything
64422
Well I can't say that I entirely disagree. One common arguement is that "Oh I can't afford to or I would." which is amusing. If someone couldn't make money in a capitalist country, I wonder how they'd do elsewhere...\n\nFor me, I don't pay much mind to it. I don't think that any government choices have too largely effected me and it doesn't seem they will. People can talk about losing family members in the war now days or whatever, but hey, people joined the military knowing the risk.\n\nGas prices suck, sure, but that's not only the US. In fact, the US has low prices comparitively. \n\nMedicare, retirement, etc. Well, yeah, but people are still living, and they made the decision not to get ahead in a country that was built on capitalism. \n\nI dunno, I think most people bitching don't really know what's going on. I like to make fun of the system, but for anyone well educated, the US is pretty easily the best place in the world to live. Best medical technology, schooling(post high school), etc.\n\nSince Bush got into office, what changes have we faced on a personal level? Gas prices, cigarette prices, aaaaaand . . . Yep.
59085
The New Deal during the Roosevelt Administration help to bring the USA out of the Great Depression.  It was a large public works programs that created millions of jobs that offered jobs to unemployed Americans.
993445
That attitude totally drives me crazy also.  I think people have just gotten so used to having things handed to them or having their problems "fixed" so that they don't have to take responsibility for themselves.  During the Depression or even the Westward Expansion people sacrified to make their futures better.  I don't see anyone giving up anything these days if it means the neighbors might have more.
174039
I think "writer" was on the right track...\n\nToo many people drawing social security, too few paying in.\n\nToo many people with a lower tax base, therefore, less income tax being paid into our system.\n\nToo many people using community "help" centers, ie, food banks, energy assistance, etc, with again, too few people donating to these centers.\n\nShortages in immunizations, like the flu shot shortage we just went through...(usually recommended for the very young & the elderly)\n\n(Yeah, most of these I think are financial burdens, it does seem that most of these could have been planned ahead for if we had only done it...)
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In Europe and around the world, there has always been a strong element of people feeling that it is the government's job to take care of people, but this has not historically been the case in America because people have come to America *fleeing* government in order to make a new life for themselves.\n\nI think the problem really started with Keynes and the idea that men in government could manipulate the economy for the better of everyone.  Unfortunately, leading to and during the first part of the Great Depression, our government misguidedly inflated the money supply to a very large extent, distorting prices and capital investment.  Like a rubber band being pulled back, it had to snap.\n\nHoover tried many big-government solutions to the depression which only made things worse.  FDR campaigned that Hoover was doing the wrong then, then got elected and did the same thing, only more so.  All the big-government "solutions" only further distorted the economy (preventing the rubber band from snapping back correctly.)\n\nIn FDR's mad dash to spend as much government money as possible in order to stimulate the economy, he started Social Security, unemployment, welfare, and a host of other programs.  I think a combination of the dispair at the economy and the ease to sit back and let government handle things was the beginning of dependence.\n\nAs generation after generation grows up with the huge safety net paid for by those who don't need it (from each according to ability, to each according to need) then people know that they don't have to be successful and take care of themselves, because the goverment will have to be there for them.\n\nBy all means, help a deserving person out who can use help, but the automatic help for anyone, regardless of whether they deserve it or not is the real poison.
460050
Nope, too many people with too much influence don't want it and lobby hard against it.  Why would they want to pay a flat tax if they currently pay little or no tax to begin with?
24595
I'm not interested in a candidates stances ("I believe in America; my opponent believes in selling babies to gay, drug dealing, communists").  I care about whether or not they're engaged in the problems of the world around them.  Do they care about peoples lives, are they thinking about solutions.  \n\nIt's easy to stand in opposition to what you don't like and say that's having convictions.  But what I want is someone who, instead of having all the answers, wants to work to solve the problems.  Someone creative, hardworking, insightful, and compassionate.  Only then am I even willing to listen to their ideas on free trade, or foreign relations, or social security, or education.  \n\nCan you imagine hiring someone at any office in America based on the beliefs and opinions they already hold.  No, you hire based on their ability to do the work, their practical ideas, their sense of themselves, but even more so their adaptability to new situations that could arise.  Sadly, this isn't how candidates are elected, and it's to the detriment of the nation.
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By limiting production, Roosevelt succeeded in creating demand for farm goods, instead of overproduction.  This brought the prices up, and the amount of goods down, giving farmers steady income.\n\nThe New Deal program initiated was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA).  It aided farmers and restricted overproduction.  At first, most farmers were skeptical of Roosevelt's new plan, and he had to pay them to put it into effect.  This problem also arose during the Dust Bowl era, when Roosevelt's administration persuaded farmers to not plow as often, and use different techniques.  But its effects are clear today.
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because most people don't agree with their views. that's why they don't run on their views