With talk of a second New Deal, we look back at the achievements of the first.

Amid a collapsing economy and a crumbling infrastructure there has been much speculation about President-elect Barack Obama instituting a new New Deal. He has already promised the largest public-works program in 50 years, including infrastructure projects to repair the country's roads and bridges, as well as programs to create new technology jobs and develop green industry. It sounds increasingly like the programs of the New Deal-including the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which put 8.5 million of Americans to work from 1935-1943, simultaneously staving off financial ruin and modernizing the nation. Under the WPA, Americans build roads, dams, bridges and parks, golf courses, public pools and art museums. A look at some of the many ventures of the New Deal:

 
 
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  • Posted By: phunkenburg @ 04/26/2009 2:47:03 AM

    I ALSO AGREE THAT WEE= NEED TO SEND EVERYSIINGLE ILLEGAL ALIEN BACK TO THE CONTRY THEY CAME FROM AND PROSECUTE THE EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE THEM TO THE FULLEST, SO THEY WONT HIRE THEM ANYMORE. THEY WHETHER THE LATINS HERE LEGALLY WANT TO ADMIT IT OR NOT, ARE THE SINGLE BIGGEST DRAIN ON OUR ECONOMY AND SHOULD BE DEALT WITH. THESE PEOPLE TRY AND SAY THE ILLEGALS DO ALL THE JOBS REAL AMERICANS DONT WANT TO DO BUT THATS NOT TRUE , WHAT IS, IS THAT THE EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE THE ILLEGALS PAY THEM LESS THEN MINIMUM WAGE AND KEEP THE PROFITS IF THE STRAWBERRY FARMERS HERE IN FLORIDA WERE PAYING 8 OR 1O BUCKS AN HOUR LIKE THEY SHOULD BE THEYD HAVE AMERICANS LINING UP TO PICK EVERY SEASON, BUT THE FACT IS THEY DONT, THEY PAY SOME ILLEGAL 4 DOLLARS A DAY AND THEY SEND 3 OF IT BACK TO ECUADOR OR MEXICO. NOT TO MENTION I CANT FIND A CONSTRUCTION JOB ANYWHERE BUT THERE WERE FOUR OR FIVE CREWS OF ILLEALS BUILDING THE HOUSES ACROSS THE STREET FROM MINE, DO YOU THINK THERE ARENT ANY AMERICANS THAT WANT TO HANG DRYWALL OR SOFFIT AND FASCIA, YOUR ALL FULL OF IT? ILLEGAL ALIENS PROVIDE NO BENEFIT TO OUR SOCIETY Y IMPORTING THE DRUG SMUGGLING AND GANGS THAT ARE SO PREVELANT IN THEIR HOME LANDS, NOT TO MENTION THE TRANSIENT AND CRIMINAL NATURE OF THIER CULTURE. THEY ALL USE FAKE NAMES, BIRTHDATES AND PAPERS STEAL SOCIAL SECURITY CARDS ETC. THEY ALL DO THESE THINGS WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARE ILLEGAL AND IN MOST CASES FELONIES. AMNESTY IS NOT AN OPTION

  • Posted By: phunkenburg @ 04/26/2009 2:25:34 AM

    THE NEW DEAL DIDNT BRING US OUT OF THE DEPRESSION IT ONLY MADE IT WORSE, DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR 2 WE WERE THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT HADNT HAD ITS FACTORIES BOMBED SO WE WERE THE ONES MAKING EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE WAR WHEN WE LITERALLY MADE EVERYTHING. THAT IS WHAT BROUGHT THE ECONOMY BACK UP, THE WAR SPENDING MENTIONED BY THE BLEEDING HEART. I THINK THE FACT NEWSWEEK WANTS SO BADLY TO ASSOCIATE OBAMA WITH FDR AND THE NEW DEAL LIKE HE WAS THERE, ALL HAIL THE MESSIAH THE GREAT OBAMA

  • Posted By: memo2 @ 03/21/2009 2:45:57 AM

    what is the deal only to reinforce federal buildings, and getbetter they selfs?......

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