"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 tasks 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." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933
Four years after the stock market crash, FDR became the thirty-second president. This portion of his speech MOST LIKELY illustrates his belief that...
a. governments should go to war to increase the number of jobs in the military
b. governments should actively get involved in addressing unemployment
c. the natural resources of the US were running out
d. the US was on the break of WWII
b. governments should actively get involved in addressing unemployment
Explanation:
In Franklin Roosevelt's speech, the US president makes reference to the problem of unemployment, and claims that government should deal with it with wisdom and audacity. Thus he explains that the government should take responsibility for it, as if it were an emergency situation like a war. For instance, he suggests creating employment that has to do with the use of natural resources.
