The Beuscher family was hit very hard by the Great Depression. Mr. Beuscher, an old man with a wife and eleven kids who used to work at a railroad company which eventually laid him off. The family income was low. Before the New Deal the family made most of their money life insurance and what little money Mrs. Beuscher could make sewing clothes. One of Herbert Hoovers responses to the Great Depression was to not raise taxes. Hoover said, "No matter how devised, an increase in taxes in the end falls upon the workers and farmers, or alternatively deprives industry of that much ability to give employment and defeats the very purpose of these schemes” (December 9, 1930: Message Regarding Unemployment Relief). Hoover viewed raising taxes as something …show more content…
Beuscher worked at to be able to hire more people. However, under Herbert Hoover, congress was trying to pass unemployment relief which would cost about 1.5 billion dollars. Hoover viewed giving grants to businesses grants would remove a company’s abilities to employ more people by getting the government involved with the free market. And with the governments involvement in the free market the economy will never rebound. Hoover wanted private charities to help people in the great depression. Which is one of the ways the Beuscher family got their coal. The family previously donated to the charity and now they feel that the charity was a great investment. Getting people around communities to help each other out should be a thing that exists everywhere before, during, and after the great depression. Communities is what makes America great. The Hoover way, along with the Beuscher’s belief was that people should pick themselves up by the boot straps. They viewed going to the city hall as embarrassing and that some people who got it was bums and people who didn’t work hard enough. After fall 1935 Beuscher family started to get back on their