People on the farms will drift into the nearby cities; the cities will have no farm trade and the workers in the city factories and stores will have no jobs.
FDR
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
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If, on the other hand, the farms within that area remain as farms with better water supply and no erosion, the farm population will stay on the land and prosper and the nearby cities will prosper too.
That is why it is worth our while as a nation to spend money in order to save money.
In the same way it is the purchasing power of the workers in these factories in the cities that enables them and their wives and children to eat more beef, more pork, more wheat, more corn, more fruit and more dairy products, and to buy…
In a physical and a property sense, as well as in a spiritual sense, we are members one of another.
It will conserve and improve not only property values, but human values.
The people in the drought area do not want to be dependent on federal, state or any other kind of charity.
They want for themselves and their families an opportunity to share fairly by their own efforts in the progress of America.
The farmers of America want a sound national agricultural policy in which a permanent land-use program will have an important place.
They want assurance against another year like 1932 when they made good crops but had to sell them for prices that meant ruin just as surely as did the drought.
Sound policy must maintain farm prices in good crop years as well as in bad crop years.
It must function when we have drought; it must also function when we have bumper crops.
The maintenance of a fair equilibrium between farm prices and the prices of industrial products is an aim which we must keep ever before us, just as we must give constant thought to the sufficiency of the food supply of the nation even in…
Our modern civilization can and should devise a more successful means by which the excess supplies of bumper years can be conserved for use in lean years.
In the drought area people are not afraid to use new methods to meet changes in Nature, and to correct mistakes of the past.
They stand ready to fit, and not to fight, the ways of Nature.
We are going to conserve soil, conserve water and conserve life.
The brave spirit with which so many millions of working people are winning their way out of depression deserves respect and admiration.
The second is that healthy employment conditions stand equally with healthy agricultural conditions as a buttress of national prosperity.
Dependable employment at fair wages is just as important to the people in the towns and cities as good farm income is to agriculture.
Our people must have the ability to buy the goods they manufacture and the crops they produce.
Thus city wages and farm buying power are the two strong legs that carry the nation forward.
Government spending was in large part responsible for keeping industry going and putting it in a position to make this reemployment possible.
Private enterprise is necessary to any nation which seeks to maintain the democratic form of government.
In their case, just as certainly as in the case of drought-stricken farmers, government spending has saved.
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