When I was in the 6th grade, our "Social Studies" teacher fed us all a daily dose of propaganda about how great Democrats were because of FDR's WPA.
Even then, I knew it was garbage, but I thought: "At least they were carrying shovels and doing something."
The welfare leeches, the SSDI takers, the long term unemployed - none of them want to work in jobs like that (heat, cold, manual labor).