[dfwgator]

Not only because it is unfair for those who have to pay, it’s now unmistakably clear that not working and being productive is thoroughly de-humanizing. It’s like being an over-indulgent parent and raising a spoiled and incompetent child.

He agreed....

A large proportion of these unemployed and their dependents have been forced on the relief rolls. The burden on the Federal Government has grown with great rapidity. We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole our relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers.

The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.



You know who said it, right?

[Trailerpark Badass]

I would assume FDR.