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Question: What did the harshest critics of the New Deal suggest ought to be done!?
The critics I'm talking about are people such as "The Kingfish" Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Conservatives, big business, and socialists!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I do not know any specifics but here are some generalizations!.

Huey Long, Father Coughlin and socialists would say that the New Deal did not go far enough

Conservatives and big businesses probably would say that it went too far, turning the US into the Soviet Union!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Smedley Butler, one of the finest US Marines ever, a two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor and recently retired, came forward in 1934 and revealed a plot by pro-fascist US businessmen to stage a military coup to remove or assassinate Franklin Roosevelt!. One of these business leaders was Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current President!. This was almost twenty years before Prescott Bush was elected to the US Senate, and by that time Butler had been dead twelve years!.

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Prescott_Bu!.!.!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Business_Pl!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com