this takes us tp tjeo the new deal. it takes us to the plan of the great depression. this is where i want to end. this is a fundamental shift in our nations history. prior to this, in all the years america existed we were a nation with a small government. it was the presidents that all saw government in the same perspective. it had certain duties to fulfill. it had certain responsibilities it was empowered with. but it wasn't supposed to go much beyond that. there were boundary lines. the government had to stay inside the boundary lines. talking about national government. franklin roosevelt came into a very terrible moment in our history. where 1/3 of the population didn't have anything to eat. my mom, honest to god, was eating oatmeal for breakfast lunch, and dinner. my mother lived in a shack. i visited it, where she lived with her mom and four siblings. it was a chicken coop over which they placed at best this -- placed as best asbsestos shields. they barely survived the great depression. as a boy, she took me to see where she lived as a kid. she was born 1926, my