Title of the Politico piece should be “You can tell a Harvard Man, but you can’t tell him much!”
This grand announcement by the pre-president was headlined “ to give the people HOPE of a recovery”
The Ultimate “Bridge to Nowhere” plan which will enrich Zero’s crony contractors. “Hey man! Great infrastructure-what company does this road lead to? Oh,yeah, they closed down a long time ago cause they weren’t green enough- nice road and bridge though”
Don’t forget that asphalt is an oil based product. Spikes in oil mean spiralling asphalt costs. Concrete? same way.
Can somebody re-post the Obama community organizer park photo, where a $100K gazebo was all that was built for the money. Oh, and don’t forget, these “created” projects will all HAVE to be at required union rates, so Zero’s mob buddies can supply all the “shadow” non existent workers they need for their rake off, and managed by an ever expanding federal payroll from new agencies. This proposal is a disaster. FDR continued (mostly) Hoover’s doomed public works programs— these failed, and, just as the economy was beginning to naturally cycle back to health- BAM! he set up WWII with his British pals and their Stalinist fellow travelers. We must resist this. We must return private manufacturing to this country to employ our people in good, product making jobs. A service economy that serves only itself is doomed to failure. The expanding federal payroll this will create is the measuring tool for the disaster.
This is almost as exciting as LBJ’s War on Poverty. How did that turn out?
Isn’t it interesting how the Dems would constantly complain about the deficit during Bush’s years, yet you don’t hear a peep about the deficit now the The One has risen.
It has also evolved a great deal with addititions not contemplated in the 1950s. I think Eisenhower deserves credit and kudos for the idea and the start. I think the seeds were sown when he took an Army convoy cross country in the late 19 teens or early 19 twenties. He saw the need for national defense reasons. This is another reason we were lucky to hove Eisenhower rather than Stevenson, a man just too smart to be President.
What is also scary is pouring oceans of tax dollars down the futile rathole of gummint skewels with no accountability whatsoever for the rotten results. What’s next? Bill “Mad Bomber” Ayres as Secretary of Indoctrinat... err, Edumakashun????
From what I’ve seen and heard, this sounds like FDR’s programs recycled - no new ideas. Certainly not 21st Century. This is the big CHANGE zero was bragging so much about?
Despite years of FDR’s government make work programs, unemployment was still at about 20% in 1938.