For they aim at breaking the dismal cycles of despair and dependency, which have created a welfare class catered to by a welfare bureaucracy. But they will point the way toward our becoming at last one nation and one people. They will not guarantee complete racial harmony. They will not by themselves eliminate poverty now or even in the next decade.
These programs represent a beginning they illustrate the new direction that our efforts to reconcile the races and to rescue the poor ought to be taking. Tonight I would like to describe some of those bridges. I spoke of bridges that can and should be built between the developed and the under-developed parts of our society - between rich and poor, white and black - human bridges, economic bridges, bridges of understanding and of help.
Rather than spending more, the Federal budget must be cut by some $8 billion if the fiscal crisis is to be averted and the dollar itself preserved.īut I also stated that a lack of available Federal funds ought not to stifle our ingenuity. In a radio address last week, I stated this conviction: that the economic crisis confronting America today is so acute that it rules out a massive transfusion now of additional Federal funds into the nation's cities.