Playing Politics Quotes
This classic, notorious quotation was stated by President Herbert Hoover in the first year after the Stock Market Crash that triggered the Great Depression. It shows how out of touch Hoover and the Republican party was at the time. Unemployment was running around 25 percent and there was no social safety nets—people were literally starving and millions were homeless. Not only did Hoover oppose any unemployment relief, but he accused those who were advocating that of being unethical and immoral for doing so. His view was that the Federal Government should not interfere and that welfare or relief would weaken the moral fiber of the people. In 1932, the American Voters rejected him and choose FDR who advocated using the instrument of the Federal Government to ameliorate and who led the initiative for unemployment relief.
Describing the increasing trend of young computer hackers who generally had hacked just for the challenge getting involved in hacking with a political and ideological causes—sometimes even working for governments.
