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.
Which of these quotes from other interviews is the best
rebuttal to this counterclaim?
O "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."
O "They're goin' to give every family [head) an income
of at least twenty-eight dollars a week while ſhe's) out
of work and a minimum of fifty when [he] goes back to
work, no matter what (he) does."
O "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 ..."
O "One reason people here don't like WPA is because
they don't understand. ... They'd never have had the
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