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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (575187)	7/6/2010 1:56:59 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576177

"The TVA didn't do anything to lift America out of the Great Depression." Except provide 10's of thousands of jobs in the nation's poorest regions, prevent catastrophic periodic flooding, and provide electricity to areas that had had none, allowing the building of factories in the south where there had been no electricity to run them earlier. The TVA was just ONE of such projects. In Central Texas, where I was from, it was the LCRA - Lower Colorado River Authority. en.wikipedia.org Naw, they didn't do anything.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (575187)	7/12/2010 11:07:46 PM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576177

>How did that "work" in the past? The TVA didn't do anything to lift America out of the Great Depression. It was a make-work project designed to keep some Americans busy. Um, it put tens of thousands of Americans to work. I actually just spent a few hours with my great uncle who is a Beck and O'Reilly lover and was around during those days -- he and I discussed the TVA and he said it was a great thing for America. >Even after The Great Depression, the TVA was cited by Reagan as one of the problems of big, inefficient government. What did you expect Reagan to say? -Z