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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States and served from March 4, 1929 to March 4, 1933.
690 Questions
The main opponent of prohibitionist Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election was?
Alfred E. Smith
What did president hoover win from industry and what was the result?
A pledge from Industry to keep factories open, and to stop slashing wages. The result was the pledges later became abandoned.
President hoovers overall plan to deal with the great depression was to?
allow voluntary actions to resolve it
I absolutely agree! I could care less how reviled this former President is, the statement quoted above is absolutely correct. It is not duty of the general government, nor do they possess any power to extend relief for individual suffering. This is not to say that the people are not entitled to petition the courts for any redress of grievances, but universal suffering? The only way to accomplish an extension of relief for certain individual is through tax dollars. Public dollars can not and should not be used as public assistance. That they are today is wrong and abhorrent to the Constitution itself. The public can not just vote themselves "free money" without getting that "free money" from somewhere. To tax one person in order to subsidize another is an abrogation and derogation of the first persons rights. The governments business is not charity it is protection. No one is protected by social welfare, it is quite simply a redistribution of wealth. Even though the rich are rarely in favor it is still legal, I'm pretty sure, to be rich in this country. If someone became rich through ill legal plunder then we do not tax this person more than someone who earned their money legally, we prosecute him and fine him for his plunder, perhaps even incarcerating him for his crime. We should not declare plunder legal so we may plunder the plunderers. This is nothing more than lawlessness and...Oh! Look around, what do you know? Lawlessness abounds!
Was president Hoover a consistent supporter of rugged individualism?
Yes, he did stay consistent in his support of "rugged individualism." If we look at some of his actions during his presidency we can see that he did not abandon this idea that if you are in trouble you should help yourself and not expect others to help you. I am going to only present one example because of the hour. The Bonus Army, was turned away by Hoover. These people were asking for an early government hand out for their services during the war. Hoover rejected them. This demonstrates how when these citizens were in a tight fix Hoover maintained his philosophy that we need to help ourselves and not let the government do it for us.
