Witness:
But the stark fact before us is that great numbers still remain unemployed.
A large proportion of these unemployed and their dependents have been forced on the relief rolls. The burden on the Federal Government has grown with great rapidity. We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able—bodied but destitute workers.
The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.
These games are no challenge in the Age of Google, but I think you’ll be surprised to learn the name of the author of this text.
Rob Chipman says:
Radical and provocative.
November 2, 2011 — 2:15 pm
Timothy Theiss says:
Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 4, 1935)
http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/state-of-the-union/146.html
Interesting commentary, especially in the shadow of the Bankruptcy of the United States.
On March 9, 1933, the U.S. declared bankruptcy, as expressed in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Orders 6073, 6102, 6111, and 6260.
President Roosevelt declared a National Emergency that made it unlawful for any citizen of the United States to own gold. Our bankrupt nation went into receivership and reorganized in favor of it’s creditor and new owners, a private corporation of international bankers. (Since 1933, what is called the “United States Government” is a privately owned corporation of the Federal Reserve/IMF.)
Without a word of truth to the American people, all our good faith and credit was pledged as the surety for the debt by the same Congress who created the mechanism that allowed it to occur.
Reference: Public Law 94-564 Legislative History, pg. 5936, 594531 U.S.C.A. , 31431 U.S.C.A., 5112C.R.S. , 11-61-101C.R.S. 39-22-103.5
November 2, 2011 — 2:40 pm
Teyona says:
Google is great!:))I know who’s the author. Yes, it is indeed provocative and everything you wrote is true.
November 3, 2011 — 12:53 am
Sylvester J. Lombardi says:
Everything I read here is noteworthy. I know the author as well and the words are just clever as the first name. 🙂
November 3, 2011 — 7:59 am
Thomas A B Johnson says:
Did he say this before or after he lit the fuse of the Social Security time bomb?
November 3, 2011 — 9:40 am
Chad T says:
So who is the Author?
November 4, 2011 — 1:59 pm
Don Reedy says:
“But the stark fact before us is that great numbers still remain unemployed.”
Great numbers who labor as the grasshopper…..
November 4, 2011 — 4:11 pm