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To: bentway who wrote (96045)	7/5/2011 3:23:02 PM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 149317

Might well have been more efficient. Back in the 1930's when Roosevelt created the WPA and other organizations to put people to work building infrastructure projects the work was far more labor intensive and employed a good number of otherwise unemployed individuals. It's a bit different now. A $20 million bridge replacement project near me rarely has more than a handful of workers on site, and few, if any, appear to be unskilled. Machinery and current construction techniques just don't require that many hands for the work that required hundreds decades ago. Yes, there are indirect jobs, but the whole idea was to stimulate the economy quickly, and for a number of reasons that didn't happen - banks shutting down lending, for one. The economy stabilized, and considering the freefall and fear in the streets at the time, stabilization shouldn't be considered a defeat.