I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peacetime in all American history — one which piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs or reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer. We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people."

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peacetime in all American history — one which piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs or reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer. We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people."" in the context of ""Campaign Address on Agriculture and Tariffs at Sioux City, Iowa (29 September 1932)
• The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Samuel Irving Rosenman, 1938, Random House, vol. 1, "The Genesis of the New Deal, 1928-1932," p. 761 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=ppotpus;cc=ppotpus;q1=I%20accuse%20the%20present%20Administration%20of%20being;rgn=full%20text;idno=4925052.1928.001;didno=4925052.1928.001;view=image;seq=00000813 http://books.google.com/books?id=LD13AAAAMAAJ&q=%22greatest+spending+administration%22&dq=%22greatest+spending+administration%22&hl=en&ei=JT0nToWXH-SDsgK1i6k7&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEwQ6AEwCTge" to mean that wisdom is timeless.