SF New Mexican:
The New Mexican has a short history of the New Deal, the CCC, and their legacy in New Mexico. As I’ve mentioned before, when you drive around the West with eyes open for these historical treasures, you wonder (as you do with the Anasazi ruins that speckel our landscape) where that great civilization went, and why. They built massive stone structures then; we build post office ‘mobile home’ trailers today.
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A Republican could never forward such an idea. They’d be hung, drawn, quartered, burned, tarred and the various leftover pieces hung on the Washington Monument (nearest thing they’ve got to a conservative edifice on the Mall) ... all while being virulently verbally vilified.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 04/06/08 at 02:10 PM
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I know our current President’s missteps are multitudinous and legendary, but I wondered why some New Deal-equivalent program, using local labor, wasn’t instituted in the Gulf after Katrina hit. It seemed to me that aggressive rebuilding coupled with rigorous on the job training would have stabilized the area faster, given a sense of ownership to the “new” neighborhoods, and provided job skills that could have lasted far past the rebuilding efforts.