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Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Billion?

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I know these suggestions will elicit screams of “socialism” from the right. But that's nonsense. It's like describing a detox center as a saloon because it houses alcoholics. Americans are not the socialist type. The proof of that is that, in spite of Roosevelt's massive government-financed work programs, as soon as Americans could again earn a buck the old fashioned capitalist way, they did.

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