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Originally Posted by cglenhar
What if every person that wanted a job, was givin a government job, like repairing roads and bridges, and infra structure, like during the Great Depression? If all of the money spent on the bail out was shifted to fixing what needed to be fixed all over the country, everyone wins. Displaced workers walk away with a valuable trade, and the country gets to tend to its long negleted maintence.
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Exactly what our country doesn't need. A government that is the employer of last resort. Maybe you never worked around CETA workers 20 years ago, but I did. Jobs created to employ people who couldn't find real jobs because of poor education, poor work skills and alcoholism. Simply, make work jobs. The American
worker needs and wants REAL jobs.
The number of unemployed in this country is still what, 5.5%? Hardly the numbers of unemployed during the Depression.
Maybe we should just Give houses to all that want to. How about a car? If the American public want something they don't have, the government will provide.
As I have said in another thread, the Great Depression was caused by the Failure of the government to make the funds available to the Bank of America in New York, causing a panic that spread throughout the banking system. Now you say we shouldn't bail out the banks? We have bailed them out this time and look how bad the economy is. Imagine how bad it would be if we let them all fail?