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governmental loans to banks to keep them afloat, it realizes it no longer has enough money to pay its own government workers. Few Americans, to this point in time, have been able to save enough for the “rainy day”. They live for the moment, as has always been par for the course, and realize working from cradle to grave is normal. If old age does prevent working, well, that’s why par ents have children. The handful fortunate enough to save and invest their money watch their fortunes disappear in a flash. No one escapes unscathed. “The impact of all these forces increasingly con vinced the majority of the American people that individuals could not by themselves provide ad equately for their old age, and that some form of greater security should be provided by society,” says Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois. State and local governments, and charities are struggling to survive themselves, long past being able to assist the people. Enter President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 4, 1933. Within his first one hundred days in office, he introduces the New Deal, a road to recovery. Its primary aims are employment and financial secu rity. The forward-thinking FDR administration also quietly establishes a “Black Cabinet”, led by Mary

McLeod Bethune. Its purpose is to ensure that ev ery New Deal agency has a black advisor. The num ber of African American government workers in stantly triples. The American people receive a panacea— hope. Whether rich or poor, white or black, man or wom an, help is on the way. As tempting as it may be for a politician to grab public morale and sprint from campaign to cam paign with its superpowers, FDR understands his ultimate responsibility to the future. “The lessons of history, confirmed by the evi dence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle de stroyer of the human spirit…” the president pro claims. One of the most important features in this initia tive is passed by Congress in 1935, the Social Secu rity Act. It will address unemployment, disabilities, and retirement pensions. What is viewed as a res cue package in a time of crisis, becomes the new and permanent framework for American society. It is called welfare.

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