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By the time F.D.R takes office there are at least 15 million unemployed, probably more - at least a quarter of the nation, maybe a third. To get a sense of this, imagine that you are one of 100,000 people in a football stadium and that as you file out you´re handed a piece of paper saying you´re fired. Imagine the next week a hundred thousand more come into that stadium, and as they leave they´re told you no longer have a job. And imagine that happening for 52 weeks of the year...for three straight years. You will then have approximated the total number of unemployed when Franklin Roosevelt takes office. From, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, episode 5.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:36:01 +0000

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