Despite the widespread popularity that rooted the program in American economy forever, and the fact that it was not particularly harmful to any given citizen, the FDIC was not without critics. Many debates arose regarding the setbacks of the system; one common point was that while the failure of many banks were inevitable, there were also plenty of tanked banks as a result of poor leadership, and having no real way to differentiate the two, the FDIC would be rewarding banks that ran themselves into the ground ("Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation." FDIC: The First Fifty Years.). Another more politically based argument came from flustered conservatives who saw the whole thing as too much government involvement. Sympathetic to this theory were those who wanted to limit the government’s power, and as a result, saw banks’ dependency on them as an edge for liberal ideology ("Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation." FDIC: The First Fifty Years.).