“If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.” IfsYearsLittlesTwoWould BeLastsThreeBuyingThree YearsGreat Depression Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931 Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931
“Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'” IfsWayWantLittlesHelpingPoliticsPayTaxesFellowsWorkersBottomQuittingRecoveryBuyingAnother WayBuying ThingsHigh Taxes Author:Will Rogers