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Roosevelt proposed a "[[New Deal]]" for Americans, a program with emphasis on [[states' rights]], opposition to too powerful central government, opposition to big government which should be cut down to its proper size, opposition to high taxes, unbalanced budgets, and government debts. In preelection speeches, Roosevelt stressed the rights of the states so much so as to urge that public welfare relief, old­ age pensions and unemployment insurance should be administered by the states, and that the federal government would merely aid the states with relief funds and serve as collection agent for social insurance. Above all Roosevelt decried the shocking spending habits of the Republicans and the mounting public debt. He called Herbert Hoover "the greatest spender in history." He said of the Republican party : "It has piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission ... at the expense of the taxpayer." He told the people: "For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government, federal, state and local,­ costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching."  Roosevelt claimed to be against Big Government saying, "We must merge, we must consolidate subdivisions of government and, like private citizens, give up luxuries which we can no longer afford." Roosevelt repeated over and over during the campaign: "I propose to you that government, big and little, be made solvent and that the example be set by the President of the United States and his cabinet." As governor of New York from 1928 to 1932 Roosevelt inherited from Gov. [[Al SmiththisGOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA!O]] a surplus of $15,000,000 and left it with a deficit of $90,000,000. Toward the end of the 1932 Presidential campaign he cried: "Stop the deficits! Stop the deficits!"