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To: alanrs who wrote (202529)	5/15/2009 6:09:48 PM
From: Galirayo	Respond to of 306849

>>Hoover Dam<< The ARMY Corps of Engineers are Awesome ... We could use a few more like Hoover Dam. And a few more Navy Seals. Long Live the Pirates. ;) Why didn't we bring in the Seals at Yemen ... ???

To: alanrs who wrote (202529)	5/15/2009 7:20:12 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>And of course before the war we did spend a lot of money on infrastructure, the Hoover Damn and the stately Evanston post office building being just two fine examples, although I've never heard a good case for the WPA ending the depression.<< WPA did bring unemployment down form 25% to 10%. krugman woul dargue I think that it just wasn't large enough. which is what krugman, Stiglitz, Gailbraith and others are saying right now. Stimulous is just not large enough. Of course inheriting a 10 trillion deficit from which we gained nothing makes the keynsian approach that much mroe risky.