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They are more likely to like heavy state leaders. You know what they say young angry men ate not a good combo. And we seem to be building up a bunch no jobs no chance of a home everything becoming unaffordable.
I'd like to see the Democrats take up a modern version of the WPA, if I'm honest. The conservatives get all butt mad about such things, but hell, some of their output is something you still see around, nearly 90 years later. My understanding is that for men that were out of work, it gave them a real sense of pride and purpose, too.
We have a crumbling infrastructure and we have people being thrown into desperation. Seems like the problem almost solves itself. That is if ridiculous conservative dogma about how economies work can be cast aside. If we can spend ~19 billion and counting on something like bombing Iran, we can do something like this.
It doesn't have to just be only the usual infrastructure we think of like bridges and roads. Why not hire a bunch of people to (responsibly) migrate our older systems running things like COBOL that always seem to have so many people wringing their hands over? And do it not as an outsourced project, but instead, under something like WPA?
Why not have people hired to re-imagine and re-implement our mass transit? Everyone from people working on the design for such changes all the way down to the people that need to hold signs to direct traffic when the construction is under way...
I'm not sure I've heard a politician even talk about something like WPA being done, at scale.
For a minute I got confused by the term WPA since where I am all that shit gets blanketed under the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). But yeah bringing that shit back on the state level at least could do a lot of good, doesn't even need to be all that hard of work, for example having a bunch of guys walk through a river during the dry season (I'm from SoCal the rivers are dry as bone during the summer) picking up trash and marking shit for maintenance. Not hard work but slow work that requires a good bit of manpower.
If you want them to do something fun IDk get volunteers and launch an extermination campaign on the local boar population or something.
Yeah, agreed on the state part - ideally they all use similar names (like states do for "DOT" - maybe something like ColoWPA or CaliWPA, etc.) so people that have a memory of seeing something tied to those names from the past make the connection, or if they ran across the modern version in one state and move, they can find the other department.
And when it comes to ideas, there are probably tons of things that people could think up as you have. I'd much rather have a direct engagement with government, the kind of contracting seems to be riddled with graft and people working for those outlets can (and do - I've seen people that work for huge defense contractors do this) tell themselves stories about how government never does anything.
Having government directly cutting checks to people for valuable work that benefits their community in ways that people can see would do a lot, beyond the direct and immediate benefit of the people getting paid - it would more than likely raise the level of civic engagement. This is, of course, why conservatives hated the New Deal (even though that was the compromise between some much more radical moves) and even still whine about it.
CCC was the other one I forgot about, yeah. For some reason, WPA came to mind first.