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transcript: our greatest primary task is to put people to work. this is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. it can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.
hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. the task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. it can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. it can be helped by insistence that the federal, state, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. it can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. it can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. there are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. we must act and act quickly.
first inaugural address of franklin d. roosevelt, march 4, 1933, published by the government printing office, washington dc, 1933, is in the public domain.

1. summarize the obligations roosevelt believes the government should have to its citizens.

Explanation:

Roosevelt believes the government should put people to work (via direct recruitment and projects), address population imbalance in industrial centers (through redistribution), raise agricultural product values (to boost purchasing power), prevent home/farm foreclosures, reduce government costs, unify relief activities, and plan/supervise public - utility transportation and communications.

Answer:

The government should put people to work (direct recruitment and projects), address population imbalance (redistribution), raise agricultural product values, prevent foreclosures, reduce government costs, unify relief, and plan/supervise public - utility transportation/communications.