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To: TimF who wrote (54414)	1/16/2007 3:56:27 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 90947

"Your right that during the war years anyone who wanted to work could work. But you could have had the same effect by pay having the government pay people to dig holes and pay other people to fill them back in. People would have jobs, but it would hardly be a real economic recovery." That's quite true. I was In East Berlin once before the wall came down. I walked to a small park where there was a refreshment stand and I asked for a coke. There was no one else in the park, but there were four guys inside the stand. One of them reached in a cooler and put the coke down, and I payed him. Then I went to take the coke, and he stopped me, pointing to another worker.I understood what he was saying, that the other guy had to carry my coke to a picnic table 20 feet away. Obviously, that was the rule. That's one way to have an economy with full employment! FDR's New Deal resembled that, as with the CCC. Those young guys literally did dig ditches. However, some of it was useful. There is today a roadside rest area near the Cape Cod Canal in MA, where a plaque says, "Built by the CCC."