Dale Bumpers: “Again, just so we make this point, I am one of the people in this body, along with the distinguished Senator from West…”

“Again, just so we make this point, I am one of the people in this body, along with the distinguished Senator from West Virginia, who remembers well the Depression. I was just a child. We were very poor. There was no snob value in it. Everybody in town was poor. But I can remember. The reason I still believe in Government is that the Government did some good things and created jobs at the same time. They helped us pave our streets where we choked to death on dust and mud. We lived a block from Main Street, and you could not get there when it rained. I can remember when we got an indoor john for the first time. We were rich. Before that we had a 'two-holer' out back. Most people just had a 'one-holer.' We got running water, clean water. People quit having typhoid fever and the farmers got low-interest loans. As a matter of fact, the Government built houses for them. I could go on about rural electrification, which saved my father's business. He was a small hardware merchant. As a result of rural electrification he was able to sell refrigerators, radios, ranges, all of those things. So I think Government does some things well.”