Why can't we have a WPA to rebuild America's bridges and infrastructure?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

If you were unemployed and having problems paying your mortgage and putting food on the table, would you be willing to jump on a bus and go to some local bridge to do hard physical work for $15.00 an hour? Would you expect your puffy, couch potato unemployed 19 year old son who pays no rent to do so too?

Do you think that in general the poorer stratums of society and the seemingly permanently unemployed would go for this? Couldn't we tie tuition credits to a state and/or local university or technical/trade school to this as well so that people get not only an opportunity to work but a chance to improve themselves?

[izzie]

1. Wall Street and profits.

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[hobbit709]

2. Because the powers that be don't care

They will ride in their limos on private roads and go to their gated estates and eat real food while the peasants can go fuck themselves for all they care. And sooner or later, since they fail to heed the lessons of history, past events will repeat-1776, 1789, 1905, 1917.

[madokie]

3. sounds like a plan but would that only be for documented workers only

otherwise I'm afraid there would only be more illegals crossing the border for the higher paying jobs, don't you reckon???

[jimshoes]

4. Why build real ones here

when you can build pretend ones in Iraq at 10 times the price. And no one says squat about it.

[dysfunctional press]

5. not as many people are needed on construction sites as in the wpa days...

and the population is vastly larger.

better, more effecient and modern machinery is being used.

[Selatius]

6. Bush isn't FDR. We haven't had a social democrat in office since LBJ.

You need visionary leaders who can dream up and implement such programs. We haven't elected leaders like that in a long time, and I doubt the Republicans and the corporate-owned media would let one win without a terrible fight.

[spanone]

7. What, and take money from Wars????

:sarcasm:

[Bitwit1234]

8. I've been saying that for the last two years.

My father and uncle worked for the WPA and help the town in Maryland that is still there today and as sound as ever. It helped them as young men to support their family. The product of the work back then was sound and solid. They were working on a government project. Why can't we build now, like we did back then.