Was the New Deal a good deal for America? In his presidential acceptance speech in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the citizens of the United States: “I promise you, I pledge you, to a new deal for the American people.” The New Deal, begun in 1933, was a series of federal programs aimed at providing relief, recovery, and reform to the fragile nation. The United States had been affected both economically and psychologically by the Great Depression. Many citizens looked up to FDR and his New Deal for help. However, there is much skepticism and controversy over whether these jobs projects significantly reduced dangerously high employment rates and pulled the United States out of the Great Depression. The New Deal was a bad deal for America because it provided opportunities for only a few and required too much government spending. The New Deal did not bring much benefit to most people. Walter Procter, in a letter to FDR, wrote: “The American worker – manual or cerebral – is not a stupid brutalized self. He is a man…because 'opportunity' should only mean opportunity for ...