diferences between president hoover and president roosevelt
...s not help and stand by it’s people? If we could help ourselves, we would. Hey, Mr. President, a little help over here? Not that all of Hoover’s term was spent to squander. Some of his ideas were rather good. Like his program for a Home Loan Discount Bank. This would help not only farmers, by some rural and urban families as well. It would give hope to many. And stopping the foreclosing on farms was a bold and decent move. At least trying to stop the railroads from going bankrupt is a smart idea, their high transport prices prevented many farmers from shipping their meat and crop to the cities, where it was most needed. Hoover’s speed at starting to look for solutions is also to be commended. Less than two weeks after the stock market crash, Hoover met with various representatives of labor, government, and industry to discuss how to prevent unemployment. His clever maneuvering of the dust bowl crisis without congressional involvement was, to say the least, noteworthy. In case you’ve forgotten, when news arrived of widespread crop failures in the Midwest, Hoover responded with a plan to establish state and local committees to direct relief operations. These committees brought together representatives of government, charity, banking, railroads, and agriculture without any need for Congressional action. However hard it is to come up with a multitude of things I agree with in Hoover’s policies, it is an exactly different situation with the other President of our time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt knew what to expect when he came into the presidency, he had time to prepare himself and, by the time he got into the ‘big seat’, he knew what wasn’t working in the government, or at least a general idea. Which gave him an advantage in entering the office. His efficient programs like the PWAP and FERA strictly took the government from a time of lax to involvement. The idea of paying artists for their work to give to buildings and members of congress seemed, at first, absurd to me. But as I thought of it more, it made sense. To pay people for their work, however trivial it may seem to others, it better than having them learn to rely on handouts. Other programs of his that followed this same philosophy is the WPA, or Works Progress Administration. By putting the unemployed to work on things that would benefit the society at a whole, he demolished several problems. Roads got built, dams constructed, parks made more open to visitors and, perhaps most importantly, jobles...