I have spent the last five years touring the country and meeting the 13 million unemployed people in this country. The men and women of this country are a broken, ashamed, and desperate people. I have met the farmers of Ohio, Georgia, and Illinois, and the city dwellers of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. Oregon is in one of the worst conditions in this country. Children collect and sell apples to sell on the sides of the road for $1.15 a day. Jobless depressed men collect junk and scrap of all sorts to sell for almost no profit. 80,000 college students in Oregon have dropped out of school because of the cost and to support their families. People who have lost all their pride and self-respect revert to sleeping in doorways, churches,
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The The federal reserve raising interest rates has only dug this country further into the depression by putting companies into further debt, forcing them to lay off workers. If the government were to lower the interest rates, possibly eliminate them for a short period of time, it would give this country a chance of revitalization. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff act has also done nothing but maim America’s economy and people. Raising tariffs has caused European goods to be unaffordable in the US and American goods unaffordable in Europe. American companies and farmers cannot sell their products in Europe but the american people cannot afford the products in the US, putting both the producers and consumers in an economic cavity. If you could use your current power to help reduce this depression, the American people will be able to be reanimated. In conclusion Mrs. First Lady, your American people are undergoing one of the darkest periods in American history. People are surviving, but not living their lives as they are supposed to. Today, ordinary Americans have been a strong and indestructible people, but that is not a reason to deprive them of one of their most important human rights: the right to the pursuit of happiness. I urge Mrs. Roosevelt to takes the necessary steps to lift this country out of its dark
The The federal reserve raising interest rates has only dug this country further into the depression by putting companies into further debt, forcing them to lay off workers. If the government were to lower the interest rates, possibly eliminate them for a short period of time, it would give this country a chance of revitalization. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff act has also done nothing but maim America’s economy and people. Raising tariffs has caused European goods to be unaffordable in the US and American goods unaffordable in Europe. American companies and farmers cannot sell their products in Europe but the american people cannot afford the products in the US, putting both the producers and consumers in an economic cavity. If you could use your current power to help reduce this depression, the American people will be able to be reanimated. In conclusion Mrs. First Lady, your American people are undergoing one of the darkest periods in American history. People are surviving, but not living their lives as they are supposed to. Today, ordinary Americans have been a strong and indestructible people, but that is not a reason to deprive them of one of their most important human rights: the right to the pursuit of happiness. I urge Mrs. Roosevelt to takes the necessary steps to lift this country out of its dark