re: #133 lawhawk

Dumbassery is contagious. Ben Shapiro ruminates in it:

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Trump’s infrastructure plan is a farce, and it’s fleecing of the public good in favor of pushing wealth to the rich.

That’s not what FDR’s infrastructure plans were.

Let’s see what FDR plans built:

WPA - everything from things like Jones Beach, National Park System infrastructure, bridges and tunnels from the Triborough Bridge, to the parkways.

CCC - National Park infrastructure, etc.

REA - national electrification project.

TVA - supplies water and power to much of the Southeast (and provided power to Oak Ridge, which enabled construction of Manhattan Project and post-war nuclear research/manufacturing facilities

Etc.

GOP solution at the time was…. crickets.

GOP solution at the time was pretty much the same as it was during the Great Recession: Sit back and wait for the “free market” to provide. Getting people working, getting them paychecks that could feed back into the economy, was “socialism” and an abandonment of American ideals. No, the Galtian hordes felt that the only way America could remain “great” was if the businessmen benevolently created millions of jobs instead of amassing more wealth.