The other approach to the question of government spending takes the position that this Nation ought not to be and need not be only a sixty billion dollar nation; that at this moment it has the men and the resources sufficient to make it at least an eighty billion dollar nation.
Roosevelt argues for a vision of economic growth that transcends current limitations, advocating for a more ambitious national income.
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