Read this excerpt from an interview in which a person makes a counterclaim that New Deal programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were not successful.Bob [Hawley] says if anyone paid him twenty-eight dollars a week while he was loafin' he'd never go to work. Said he never made that much in the shop when he was workin' and he got along fine. . . . "You give me twenty-eight dollars a week for the rest of my life, and see [how] much work I'll do.” So there they were.
Answer
A
“As to the New Deal, I believe that it has been a failure as it has protected the trusts more than the American people. Today, the poor are poorer, and the trusts are richer.”
B
“They're goin' to give every family [head] an income of at least twenty-eight dollars a week while [he’s] out of work and a minimum of fifty when [he] goes back to work, no matter what [he] does.”
C
“When the city hasn't got funds to finance Public Welfare . . . and then when the state finds the burden’s more than they can swing, you'll see how long it takes the old birds in Washington to realize it's government help, or else . . .”
D
“One reason people here don't like WPA is because they don't understand. . . . They'd never have had the new High School they're so . . . proud of if it hadn't been for WPA. They don't stop to figure that new brick sidewalks wouldn't be there . . . if it weren't for WPA projects.”