so much wrong with your post, I hardly know where to start
family, ambition, I want a new car? What do personal goals have to do with any government? All the government does is make sure the poor don't starveI don't think anyone claims the Depression was "made worse" by government programs, though it took a war to end it.
can't let this one get away. The poor stay poor because the government needs them to stay dependent on the government. so in order to keep government jobs in place, the opportunities the poor need are removed for the most part. Now ask me how I know! Bottom line, if we were helping the poor to not starve and keeping opportunities for them, we would eventually be out of social services jobs and not need to programs any more. If on the other hand, we remove opportunities, keep the poor, poor, we keep jobs, power, lessen our consciences, and everyone is happy, everyone that is but the poor who keep opportunities to better themselves.
And what of the depression. My husband's grandmother and see is one of many people I have talked to with similar stories, was growing up on a farm when the government got involved in the depression. The result is that they were forced by the government to kill off a host of piglets that they were raising for food, because it was necessary for the government policies to work to keep the supplies low. In other words, the government created a need so that they could fill the need, so that they could show how concerned they were about the people who were suffering. How is that good? Bottom line, the government didn't help as much as they hurt.
What most people fail to understand is that economies have natural flows, that means that when they naturally good down, they will naturally go back up. All we had to do was allow people to help one another until the upward flow came into the picture. Instead, we used the government to make the problem bigger so that we could correct it and show the people how much we are for them, not our own selfish desires which were of course boosted along the way. Sorry, don't have any interest in that kind of "love" or concern.