I have read another book that said that the early new deals program and regulatory framework were essentially made by insider players, who wrote the rulebooks to fit their business operations. Suddenly, you would have a few entrepreneurs and businessmen, jailed because they do a few things differently.
For example, from my fallible memory, a businessman who sold tires has to compete with Goodyear, who have locations around the country. In order for his business to survive, he must sell his tries cheaper than Goodyears does. However, he got fined because Goodyear wrote the regulation rules for the tire industry.
Which one is more likely in your opinion? The image of government programs being an entirely benevolent operation put forward by FDR, or political machines benefiting some people more than others, sometime at the expenses of one another?
If I got a job with the work progress administration, I might be inclined to vote for FDR because he gave me a job, not whether or not if the work progress administration benefit the economy.
