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Old 06-03-2008, 04:51 PM   #2
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President Roosevelt felt that unemployment was the greatest threat to democracy - somewhere around 30%, they hypothesized, the peasants get the pitchforks.
Hence, the WPA - a little socialism was better than the collapse of the republic.

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