I wish someone would tell us what actually went down here. Nah. It’s too engrossing not to speculate.
In FDR’s day this ended up being makework, which frankly is about the best that can be done in many cases. Even old occupations undergo reinvention and can evolve out from under a former master of them. Unless retraining is part of such packages, it sounds like grand moralization without any effective direction.
I am always remembering Maynard G. krebs saying ‘work’!!!
Even the other day when I thought of him looking for a youtube vid of it without having to go through a whole episode.
Those days it was making fun of the beatniks.
But man, these days it is so Democrats.
Did Maynard live in his mom’s basement? ;)