○  a time for choosing (aka the speech)  ○

every responsible farmer and farm organization has repeatedly asked the government to free the farm economy, but how -- who are farmers to know what's best for them? the wheat farmers voted against a wheat program. the government passed it anyway. now the price of bread goes up; the price of wheat to the farmer goes down.

meanwhile, back in the city, under urban renewal the assault on freedom carries on. private property rights [are] so diluted that public interest is almost anything a few government planners decide it should be. in a program that takes from the needy and gives to the greedy, we see such spectacles as in cleveland, ohio, a million-and-a-half-dollar building completed only three years ago must be destroyed to make way for what government officials call a "more compatible use of the land." the president tells us he's now going to start building public housing units in the thousands, where heretofore we've only built them in the hundreds. but fha [federal housing authority] and the veterans administration tell us they have 120,000 housing units they've taken back through mortgage foreclosure. for three decades, we've sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. the latest is the area redevelopment agency.

they've just declared rice county, kansas, a depressed area. rice county, kansas, has two hundred oil wells, and the 14,000 people there have over 30 million dollars on deposit in personal savings in their banks. and when the government tells you you're depressed, lie down and be depressed.

we have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. so they're going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer -- and they've had almost 30

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