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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16518 |
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"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."
Will Rogers |
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| http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/will_rogers.html |
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| He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. |
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| http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/franklindroosevelt |
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| From 1933 to 1936 unemployment rates descended, but by 1937 the rates grew almost 5%. |
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| http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1510 |
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| While the New Deal did much to lessen the worst affects of the Great Depression, its measures were not sweeping enough to restore the nation to full employment. |
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| http://rooseveltinstitute.org/policy-and-ideasroosevelt-historyfdr/new-deal |
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"He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"
The United States Constitution |
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| http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html |
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| Conservatives argue, for example, that it went too far, and brought too much government intervention in the economy. |
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| http://rooseveltinstitute.org/policy-and-ideasroosevelt-historyfdr/new-deal |
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| New Deal programs were financed by tripling federal taxes from $1.6 billion in 1933 to $5.3 billion in 1940. Excise taxes, personal income taxes, inheritance taxes, corporate income taxes, holding company taxes and so-called “excess profits” taxes all went up. |
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| http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/how-fdrs-new-deal-harmed-millions-poor-people |
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| Many of the jobs created by the New Deal were only temporary. |
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| http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/usa/successorfailurerev1.shtml |
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| The New Deal was the most costly government programme in American History and some of its projects could be accused of wasting money. |
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| http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/usa/successorfailurerev1.shtml |
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