The President's News Conference
03/20/1930
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These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.
Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.
No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.
There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.