The correct answer is: "the government intervenes in a time of national crisis"
The New Deal was based on Keynesian economics that identified, as the major cause of the Great Depression, the extremely low aggregate demand figures. The solution proposed was to boost demand figures by directing large sums of public money to the creation of job positions for the large unemployed sectors, so that they can start to earn a salary and to demand products again.
Therefore, the Keynesian solution involved very intense goverment interventionism in the economy. Its critics stated that those large public expenditures would cause a terrible national budget deficit.
