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Originally Posted by commonsense
Anyone seen any new jobs in 2011 that we can credit to Congress. 
In spite of its shortrcomings........the CCC and WPA were jobs for both my father and my father in law in the 30's. |
There are a large number of very well paying staff positions that we can certainly credit Congress for... or blame Congress for... your choice.
I don't know of anyone who worked in those FDR programs but I have benefited from walking on trails and utilizing other parks related infrastructure that were created back then. My only criticism was that given all of the Federal spending and all of the "brilliant" administration that went into those programs, they only created seasonal and temporary jobs and did nothing to pull us out of the Depression and they barely even registered a blip on the nation's GDP.
What finally got us out of the Depression was the systematic destruction of over half the world's industrial and manufacturing capability while our own manufacturing capacity only increased exponentially. All of this was directly attributable to the Second World War.
This of course also represented an unnatural condition that simply could not last. When the rest of the world was rebuilt our factories and workers had to learn how to compete. We never did. Instead, we created fat, bloated and inefficient manufacturing "unions" that destroyed our industry. Most of the leadership of these unions were members of organized crime.
Drive through Detroit and up around Dearborn, Michigan. It's a ghost town. Shuttered plants and abandoned homes.
Then, drive across the Ambassador Bridge into Ontario Canada. Drive along the north shore (the Canadian shore) of Lake Erie up to Toronto and along the Lake Ontario shore. You will see over 250 miles of new, clean and efficient manufacturing plants and their surrounding communities. It a HUGE manufacturing center. HUGE. It boggled my mind the last time I was through there. Almost all of the production from these plants is then exported to the United States.
Why is that? Why is Detroit a ghost town and Toronto is surrounded by this HUGE thriving manufacturing megalopolis?
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