Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget, the forecast for receipts was $5,919,000,000, for expenditures $6,869,000,000. Result: a 1939 net deficit of $950,000,000. On the outgo side the President tentatively set down Defense at just under a billion, Relief at just over a billion, then added: "Due to world conditions over which this Nation has no control, I may find it necessary to request additional appropriations for national defense. Furthermore, the economic situation may not improve-and if it does not, I expect the approval of Congress and the public for additional appropriations if they become necessary...
Actually if expenditures for Defense and Relief exceed the tentative estimates-or revenue falls short of expectations-by $150,000,000, the trend will be reversed, the deficit will again start...
Actually in Cleveland during the first six days of the New Year 65,000 people on the relief rolls went without food and clothing orders. This hardship, which caused one reliefer to commit suicide, was due, as Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton explained, to the "inexcusable failure of the State of Ohio" to pass a relief act before the year...
...main criticisms was that "The contralized agrarian program takes money from the middle and poor classes in the United States in proportion as they are poverty stricken. The relief authorities give it back to the very poor. The net sufferers are the middle classes...
...provide. An organization called "Tammany" could help the poor by giving food-baskets, clothing, coal and jobs, when such help from an organization called "government" might have regimented the people, sapped their vigor, and paved the way for Socialism. But under Roosevelt and LaGuardia the government by providing relief from the City Hall made unnecessary the exhorbitant tax which New Yorkers paid when this service emanated from the Wigwam. Good government is now preferred to Tammany misrule because good government has ceased to mean merely a balanced budget wrapped up in sterile slogans about initiative and self reliance...