"My most immediate concern is in carrying out the purposes of the great work program just enacted by the Congress. Its first objective is to put men and women now on the relief rolls to work and, incidentally, to assist materially in our already unmistakable march toward recovery... We must begin now to make provision for the future. That is why our social security program is an important part of the complete picture. It proposes, by means of old age pensions, to help those who have reached the age of retirement to give up their jobs and thus give to the younger generation greater opportunities for work and to give to all a feeling of security as they look toward old age.Provisions for social security, however, are protections for the future. Our responsibility for the immediate necessities of the unemployed has been met by the Congress through the most comprehensive work plan in the history of the Nation. Our problem is to put to work three and one-half million employable persons now on the relief rolls. It is a problem quite as much for private industry as for the government."—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, April 28, 1935What connection did President Roosevelt draw between social security and unemployment? a. President Roosevelt argued that the social security program only related to future welfare and had no connection to unemployment. b. President Roosevelt stated that social security would ease unemployment by encouraging older workers to retire and opening up jobs for younger workers. c. President Roosevelt explained that social security benefits are expensive and that this cost would drive up the unemployment rate. d. President Roosevelt argued that social security might increase or decrease unemployment so he also proposed a comprehensive work plan.

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