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Fumesucker

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3. I know people in their fifties that still do that sort of work every day..

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Mon Apr 16, 2012, 10:52 AM

Apr 2012

And more that would if the work was available, the construction industry has been hit really hard by the popping of the housing bubble.

Much more power equipment these day than there was then, some things have to still be done by hand but not as many.

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Would a WPA really work today? (pic heavy) [View all] Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 OP

People do that work now. Brickbat Apr 2012 #1

True. I was just thinking of all the people who are now unemployed. Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #2

ROFL...the thread should have stopped here alcibiades_mystery Apr 2012 #28

I know people in their fifties that still do that sort of work every day.. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #3

I know a few, but not many. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #5

I finished concrete until a few years ago and I'm 64 now madokie Apr 2012 #13

That's exactly what I used to do with my summers. Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #15

The pay is what attracted me to it to begin with madokie Apr 2012 #29

Um, no. Dreamer Tatum Apr 2012 #4

I see a lot of this in my workplace. Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #6

Today everything must be privatized liberal N proud Apr 2012 #7

That may be so, but I was asking about a WPA in the original style. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #8

Someone will expect to get rich training the unemployed. liberal N proud Apr 2012 #9

And that may be why it won't work, but let's just say for the sake of discussion that the government Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #12

I think so RT Atlanta Apr 2012 #10

I used to work construction as a kid during the summer to make a few a good amount of money. Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #11

The undocumented workers haven't "driven down those wages..." hunter Apr 2012 #22

Makes sense. Like H1B Visas. People just coming here to make a better life. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #30

Think of the workforce we'd have if we would reduce our military to something reasonable. RC Apr 2012 #14

my thinking exactly Locrian Apr 2012 #17

Good question. Wonderful pics. Many of the ones helped in the original WPA and CCCamps were jwirr Apr 2012 #16

Back in that day you could propose a project like building a dam or doc03 Apr 2012 #18

A lot of those dams were ecological disasters. I'm glad those take a long time to review. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #19

Back in that era they built the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District doc03 Apr 2012 #31

The ecological cost was way too high. I'm sorry, people were never meant to live or play Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #32

There you go I proved my point. If the Shenandoah National Park and the Skyline Drive weren't doc03 Apr 2012 #33

Neither is acceptable. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #34

Plus they outsource the work to China. See: the Oakland bridge. Zalatix Apr 2012 #24

Not if Republicans ran it. LiberalFighter Apr 2012 #20

This is referring to today, right now, at this moment. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #21

Probably not, but why not triple the number of US Park Service and Forest Service employees instead? FSogol Apr 2012 #23

How about a digital infrastructure? Zalatix Apr 2012 #25

In a country based on "free trade", what is the theoretical underpinning of a WPA program? Romulox Apr 2012 #26

Probably not . . . 4th law of robotics Apr 2012 #27