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Back in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt, in his inaugural address, pointed out that "a necessitous man is not a free man."

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As memories of subsistence struggles recede, people who are no longer necessitous are indeed free — free to use politics for unpleasant self-expression.

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“If you just can’t get ‘necessitous’ out, and the author’s happy with it, you can go for ‘needy’.”

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FDR said “necessitous men are not free men,” implying that government can and should remove necessity from the human story.

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Fired workers can collect unemployment, but the court says those who quit don’t get compensation unless they have a “necessitous and compelling” reason for leaving the job.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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