Re: Sarah Palin - hot or not?


Jim Thompson wrote:

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:37:40 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Jim Thompson wrote:

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:45:58 -0500, Kris Krieger <me@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

HiggsField <higgdfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:rrr1c41qsefb0tnmjn8supnut56bdi7ret@xxxxxxx:

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:54:09 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Re-open the WPA, then put them to work filling potholes and repairing
rusty bridges for $5 a week?


You want to trust the repair of our major thoroughfare's bridges to camp
convicts?


I think the OP meant "basic maintenence" rather than "repair". Painting and
filling potholes, for example, should be OK for tehm to do. I think a lot of
convicts would be able to do that work; actually, I think that, if there were
more emphasis on teaching them how to get, do, and keep a job, the recidivism
rate, esp. for non-violent convicts, would be much lower.


You're clueless about how the WPA worked, just as you are with
everything else that matters ;-)


Yes, if you didn't work, you didn't eat. It was meant to provide
work, and teach new marketable skills during the depression. It spurred
private industry into expansions, as well.

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/wpa/wpa_info.html

<http://www.google.com/search?q=wpa+history&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLD>

All the main streets of my hometown, Huntington, WV, were constructed
of bricks over a granite block foundation, by the WPA.


My school bus used a concrete WPA bridge on US Hwy. 25 that was built
by the WPA in 1937. Other than a little mildew it still looked new, 30
years later. The WPA took a lot of roads from rut filled dirt roads to
paved during its short existence.


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