When he says "'Please, Mr. President, don't scare us by telling us the facts.' Frankly and certainly there is danger before us... But we know full well that we cannot escape the danger... by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads,” Roosevelt warns that if American citizens simply ignore the facts, nothing will happen. change, and they will not be able to escape the danger. The danger in this situation is the Nazi invasions across Europe; Roosevelt knows that inaction will not solve the situation, but will simply block the inevitable , Roosevelt also understands that American citizens can solve the situation simply by helping European countries. At the same time, many American workers were unwilling to work and help Europeans. They felt deprived of some rights granted to managers and engineers went on strike or a lockout as a result of this. They are afraid of being fired and of not having any kind of job security. To answer this, Roosevelt states: “The worker has the same human dignity and is entitled to the same security of position engineer or manager or owner. Because workers provide the human power that produces destroyers, planes and tanks.” By appealing to pathos throughout his speech, Roosevelt eases his fears