straight talk

WPA coming to a neighborhood near you.



Posted: Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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For a considerable time I have been one of a few encouraging the return of the WPA as the only viable approach to put people back to work. I'm glad to see our "new" politicians are taking the lead, mind you, and bringing out of retirement an old Roosevelt program. Yes the Works project Administration provided work for the unemployed. It was funded in 1935 with the passing of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. Yes open the drawers of the achieves and pull the whole thing off the shelf and with a few tweaks it is ready to go. This program provided almost 8 million jobs, building roads, bridges, dams, and fed children and redistributed food. Wow what a brain child as many will call and hail it. As for me, I can't believe it. Like a bad magic trick, in my opinion it will be hailed as a stroke of genius.

A good move, well the only move. Yes anyone with a grasp understands there are no more manufacturing capabilities, hence no jobs. How ever we will look right past that to how can we get money into the hands of who they now call "Main Street America". Yes Middle Americans and Joe Six pack or Joe the Plumber types who need work and need it now.

Now for all their Harvard, Ivy League, Road Scholar capabilities it all came down to common sense. Yes a houseful of experts and they all finally came to the decision that they had no more cards to play. Rhetorically, too bad they come to it about a year ago we wouldn't be in the mess we are in.

Now that also impacts ancillary jobs, meaning business that support that type of work. Building materials, tools, clothing, supplies and administrative functions. Yes and if they were smart and having that degree on the wall evidently doesn't by any way shape or form mean they are, they would resurrect the CCC and take out of work young men hanging on corners and put them to work while teaching them a skill. Yes we rebuild America and then who knows, maybe Mexico. It can keep a hell of a lot of people working.

By fact until this program was closed by Congress in 1943 it added the most job growth in the nation between 1935 and that time. So am I for it, of course. I have been like I said promoting it at all levels of government and the media.

Now to all of you who will read this and say see the leadership, see the change, see the vision, well sadly, please this is one guy you can't convince. No not an expert, no not a prophet, no not a genius, no just and average guy. Rhetorically, perhaps that is why they can't seem to see the forest for the trees, they just don't know what an average person deals with.

So while Obama gets a plus for going in the right direction with this one, he gets a minus for, why the hell did it take this long? Yes and wait for the other moves to follow. His Global agenda, free Trade, Comprehensive Immigration and open borders, etc, just sit back and watch. Rhetorically could it be possible like Caster, the masses may just elevate him to, well perhaps God like status? Time will tell, yes time will tell.

.Robert T. Melaccio Sr. 2008 Copyright 2008 Robert Melaccio Sr.



Robert Melaccio Sr. has worked in the computer industry for 40 plus years in a diversified business and managerial environments. He enjoys freelance writing, giving seminars for young adults and teen groups as well as being an accomplished award winning poet of published poetry. He has worked teaching and as a youth minister. He is married and has three children and three grandchildren.

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