During the more than 9 years I have been privileged to serve in the Congress this has been one of the paramount priorities in my legislative program. No social phenomenon has had a greater impact on the American style and standard of living than the wholesale abandonment of our rural areas. I think reasonable men will agree that the impact of this mass movement to the central city has not been beneficial either to the places from which these migrants have come or to the places where they have gone. A growing number of rural areas are decaying while urban central cities are being choked from seemingly endless population pressures. Unfortunately. and inexplicably. the proposed solution for this universally recognized problem is to develop programs for the urban areas that. instead of discouraging immigration. have the effect of encouraging the continued flight from rural areas thus compounding both urban and rural problems. The legislation before us today is helpful but hardly the answer to most related problems. The required solution must reflect a consideration of the total environment for future living not just a portion of the problem.
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