"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 tasks 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."
-franklin d. roosevelt, first inaugural address, 1933
four years after the stock market crash, fdr became the thirty-second president. this portion of his speech most likely illustrates his belief

a. governments should go to war to increase the number of jobs in the military
b. governments should actively get involved in addressing unemployment
c. the natural resources of the us were running out
d. the us was on the break of wwii