why would people disagree with the new deal?

Source K is very different to J as K was written by the Secretary of Labour who worked for Roosevelt and would have had a close relationship with him.  Her job was to deal with unemployment and labour in the country so she would have seen many cases in the country some more desperate than others therefore she would have seen it all first hand, where as the business man in source J would only have seen what was happening around him.

There are a few reasons why these sources could differ, the first being that both writers have completely different careers, source J is a self-made business man. This could have swayed his opinion as he was ‘self-made’ so everything that he had he got himself, and for him to see that people who were doing absolutely nothing, however they were still receiving food, water and some sort of shelter would have angered him greatly, he feels that they are getting the easy option out when those who are trying there hardest to get back on there feet are getting no support. The writer of source K works in politics, ‘secretary of labour’, meaning she would have seen things that J may not have, she would have also being more aware of the scale of depth of the poverty. Her job also meant that she did not have to pay towards social security therefore she was less disposed to the bitterness of the system and this meant she was more likely to see the benefits.

Other reasons for the difference on opinion could be based on the time in which each source was written and the purpose for each source. The author of source J more than likely would have made his money in the period before Wall Street crash so he would have seen the country through the whole thing and he would have seen all of the different things going on socially and politically. This speech could have being presented to other business men which would have enabled him to be biased. Roosevelt set up social security meaning everyone had to pay to help those less fortunate, this would have lead the writer of source J to be resentful because he has worked his whole life to get were he was then he has to give some of that money to people who can’t be bothered to get up and fend for themselves. The writer of source K would be more likely to be less bitter about Roosevelt’s policies because she was immune from many of them for example the social security and as she worked with Roosevelt she would have being there when he was deciding them and her say may have had some effect on the matter. The purpose of source K was to be put in a book remembering Roosevelt, ‘The Roosevelt I Knew’ if you look at the time in which this book was written Roosevelt has not being dead very long therefore she is less likely to emphasise on all of Roosevelt’s bad qualities as that could be seen as disrespectful, source J’s speech was written in 1980, by this time Roosevelt has being dead for 35 years so it is not disrespectful to bad mouth him this would give him more freedom to express his true feelings.