If we enact this six-part program, we can show the whole world that a free economy need not be an unstable economy--that a free system need not leave men unemployed--and that a free society is not only the most productive but the most stable form of organization yet fashioned by man.
This statement outlines Kennedy's vision for a stable and productive free economy through a comprehensive program.
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