"In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have
risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment
of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves
of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the
savings of many years in thousands of families are gone."
1. Here, Roosevelt is listing problems that Americans are facing. Why does Roosevelt
include this long list here?
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