Posted by rettchr2 on March 14, 2009 at 10:41:44 from (66.175.203.54):
In Reply to: WPA posted by frdmnn on March 13, 2009 at 17:15:02:
While outside this morning shoveling horse manure, I got to thinking about some of the cheap shots leveled here at the WPA, CC, and by implication—some of the current stimulus activity. It occurred to me that the people making estimates like “half hour to grease a wheelbarrow wheel” or extensive time leaning on a shovel are not likely to have been too close to the handle of either a shovel or a wheelbarrow. I was born in 1941 so I have no direct knowledge of either WPA or CCC. However, my father had a job in the 1930’s on a WPA project. This job was in a limestone quarry where rock was being crushed and then hauled/spread to make all weather road surfaces in their township in western Wisconsin. Although this seems like a worthwhile project, it also does not sound like a cushy job. As the depression had hit agriculture well before 1929, the opportunity to earn any cash money was much appreciated by him. Any “cure” to a serious problem is likely to have some undesirable side effects. Go and read the side of your pill bottles or the flyer that comes with a prescription. Rush, and the cadre backing him for sainthood, seem to comprehend about half of “loyal opposition”. It is not enough to just say what will not work. Improvements and or better alternatives need to be proposed. WPA and CCC certainly had shortcomings and inefficiencies, but I think that they were a lot better than an alternative such as doing nothing.
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