Great Stimulus Ideas from the Great Depression

[BR_Parkway]

http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/03/stimulus-ideas.php?page=15



There were those who opposed the New Deal in the thirties, calling it communist and even fascist. There are those today, oddly enough from some of the States that most benefited it last time, who oppose the stimulus programs today. There are even those who stand up in the Senate and on Fox News and say that the New Deal and all that spending didn't have anything to do with ending the depression.

But the investments that were made then in infrastructure, around the countryside and in people are still paying dividends today.

Great slideshow at link

[ogneopasno]

1. What impresses me, looking at that slideshow, is the amount of pride and excitement people clearly

had in their work. We CERTAINLY wouldn't want that now -- people proud and excited about the work they're doing to help America? Why, that might make them...uh...proud and excited to be Americans?

[fasttense]

2. You know, you have a point there.

I've recently gone into farming and am trying to get the local community and schools to buy food from small farmers instead of buying the cheapest crap they can get from some Agribusiness farm located in Mexico. We spend millions on feeding our school children and most of the crap we put in the cafeteria is shipped from outside the US or grown in the US with pesticides and poisonous chemicals we pretend aren't harmful.

So, I am kind of proud of what I'm growing and how I've scraped together a few organizations that will buy my produce. Yes, I must say I am proud of what I'm doing even if it wont make me a millionaire.

I think more people need to do this.

[ogneopasno]

4. When people aren't afraid or angry, they can't be controlled any more. Honestly, the older I get,

the more I think that's what it comes down to. People making local decisions, growing and uniting and getting excited about things, is scary to the right wing because then they can't whip us into a Two-Minute Hate while they pick our pockets.

Thank you for your work. You should be proud! :patriot:

[BR_Parkway]

3. Proud Americans wouldn't have any use of the "victim" mentality

that the Repubs constantly push to get them to vote against their own self interest. You can't have a worthy, deserving "US" without a contrasting, deadbeat "THEM"

And you're right - those pictures clearly show a hopeful, vibrant nation rebuilding. Not the fear and smear we have today.

[ogneopasno]

5. Exactly -- see my response above. If we aren't afraid and angry, we can't be controlled. If we are

uniting and building and growing, think of the things we can do together!