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That second picture looks like Amish cobblers building a highway. lol.
Nah, it's the cobbler's elves. Can't you see the pointy ears? ;-)
I think of those every time someone mentions a government jobs program. That highway was being built when no small number of prominent americans were singing Hitler’s praise. What is going on in this country right now is very different, but also very similar in some disturbing ways.
Hitler actually bussed city professionals out to the sticks to do what the guys in the picture are doing. It was a JOB, after all. It wasn’t slave labor (yet), but it was pretty close to it.