Question

select the correct answer.
read the excerpt from hoovers speech again. which phrase reveals a weakness in hoover’s preferred solution to the great depression?
it is another mark of the character of the new deal and the destructive changes which mean the total abandonment of every principle upon which this government and the american system are founded. if it were possible to give this employment to 10,000,000 people by the government, it would cost upwards of $9,000,000,00 a year...
i have said before, and i want to repeat on this occasion, that the only method by which we can stop the suffering and unemployment is by returning our people to their normal jobs in their normal homes, carrying on their normal functions of living.

Explanation:

Hoover's preferred solution was relying on restoring "normal jobs" during the Great Depression, but the economy had collapsed such that these normal jobs no longer existed on a large scale. This phrase exposes the weakness: his solution ignored the systemic collapse of the job market, as there were no longer enough "normal jobs" to return people to, making his approach unworkable for the crisis.

Answer:

by returning our people to their normal jobs