Wyatt earp
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You are aware the Unemploment rate climbed back up to around 18% right before WWII right? FDR was a failure and those were just temporary jobs. WWII brought us out of the depression.they expect you to take and pass your drug test so you can pay them to do nothing but smoke crack and make fatherless babies while you work.I was random drug tested when I worked at a Nuclear power plant in California. Keep me clean for Two years if I wanted THE JOB making good damn money.
these whiners expecting us to give out welfare and them not having to do anything FOR IT
that's more Galling than the money being spent on it
but of course. how dare WE the taxpayers EXPECT anything from them
If you stack the deck to produce nothing your expectations will be realized but...
...but I like the way you're thinking and so would Franklin Roosevelt.
Creating a modern version of the CWA → WPA would allow Republicans to drug test employees, end welfare, rebuild our infrastructure, build our tax base, allow people to work for a paycheck and benefits (healthcare), make lifelong contributions to Social Security etc.etc... As well as contributing to the mental health of people supporting themselves by working.
Roosevelt created 4 million jobs in one month (updated)
A year ago, Charles Peters and Timothy Noah wrote in Slate.
The CWA laid 12 million feet of sewer pipe and built or made substantial improvements to 255,000 miles of roads, 40,000 schools, 3,700 playgrounds, and nearly 1,000 airports (not to mention 250,000 outhouses still badly needed in rural America). Most of the jobs involved manual labor, to which most of the population, having been raised on the farm, was far more accustomed than it would be today. But the CWA also provided considerable white-collar work, employing, among others, statisticians, bookbinders, architects, 50,000 teachers, and 3,000 writers and artists. ("Hell, they've got to eat like other people," Hopkins noted matter-of-factly.) This was achieved with a remarkable minimum of overhead. Of the nearly $1 billion—the equivalent today of nearly $16 billion—that Hopkins spent during the CWA's five-month existence, 80 percent went directly into workers' pockets and thence stimulated the economy by going into the cash registers of grocers and shop owners. Most of the rest went to equipment costs. Less than 2 percent paid for administration.
The CWA ended in March 1934. Later, Hopkins would be put in charge of the Works Progress Administration, which is what most of Taylor’s book is about.
Putting 4 million people to work in 1934 would be like putting 9.6 million to work today. And there’s plenty more work than just $16 billion that needs to be done: How about 19 million new jobs created with a $5.8 trillion infrastructure program?
And-----and the ROI would be immediate and continue to pay dividends for 50-100 years. And a permanent return to a modern WPA like program would guarantee everyone a job (not welfare) and make the government the employer of last resort.
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