Question

From Franklin Roosevelt's Inaugural Address, 1933 "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources. ... The task can be helped... by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly. ... We now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other;;... that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline." How do you think Roosevelt views the relationship of government and the economy? What policies did he want to implement with transportation and communication companies?

Answer 1

His speech, was about putting people back to work. Due to lack of employment cause that era was in the Great Depression.