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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Obama to Reboot WPA

Barack Obama is looking towards our collective future while borrowing from our past, apparently. The last time this country was in such a financial downward spiral, a visionary named Franklin - the to-that-point far lesser known fifth cousin of an older and bolder dude named Teddy - became president and rammed through quasi-Socialist legislation to turn this country into a pseudo-Socialist regime. Or so some like to Monday Morning Quarterback still, seventy years later. So, fittingly, pinko-Communist President-Elect Obama is reaching into the past and taking a page directly from FDR’s “get us the hell out of this not-so-Great Depression” playbook. Obama announced his economic plan... and I feel like I’ve heard it before:

President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.

Building roads? Building bridges? Modernization projects? Flying cars? Sounds to me like the Works Progress Administration, Version 2.008 (never heard of it? Educate thyself here).

Well, sounds well and good, Barack. But let’s not forget that the Great War, not the WPA, was ultimately responsible for finally kicking the dust off of American industry and throttling the Great Depression. Not that the WPA (and its other be-acronym’d cousins) didn’t build some great roads, bridges and dams. And if I get my flying car technology, then it’s a raging success. But it does beg the question:

So, President-Elect-Comrade Obama... if we’re really reliving the Great Depression, who are we going to attack to get out of it?

Posted by Pat Bateman at 11:19 AM

http://danquaylespotatoe.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-to-reboot-wpa.html

[combat_boots]

I guess this is where the folks on welfare will go. Sort of a change gang.

I saw the real deal once in the South. A chain gang working on roads in the hot sun, complete with horsemen watching over them with those reflecting sunglasses.

Seeing State police in Massashusetts with jodpurs, jackboots and reflecting sunglasses, now THAT was a real crowd control experience.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Here comes that Clinton economy again...guys like me who made $21 hr. pre/clinton had a saying..."I believe Clinton created 22million new jobs....I've got 3 of them"

Simple math, 1 $21hr job divided by 3 (after lay off/outsourcing...spreading the wealth)= 3 $7hr jobs.

Here we go again...what's next, start creating the bubbles again?

[ajay_kumar]

Bite me but it makes more sense to spend on repairing infrastructure than bailing out Wall Street banks. Don’t tell me Zero is going to run a sensible approach to governing instead of a hard left turn. That approach will result in riots in all those neighborhoods which voted 98% to Zero
(the other 2% just voted some one else unintentionally).

[American in Israel]

Someone has to run the re-education camps.

[P.O.E.]

1 guy with a shovel, and 2,499,999 bureacrats to manage his project.