FDR Campaigned on Fiscal Restraint in 1932. He Delivered Just the Opposite

On September 29 in Iowa, FDR blasted Hooverism in these terms:

"I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peace times in all our history. It is an Administration that has piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs and the reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats, commissions and commissioners have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer..."