WPA for Katrina Survivors - Jobs for them to rebuild their own towns.

[patrice]

and Micro-lending for local property owner/entrepreneurs with alternative solutions - and TIF's for local guild development - and Member-governed co-operatives or granges - and profit sharing - and Unions - and Public Farms - and . . . .

[ewagner]

1. That's actually a good idea

it's what SHOULD be done but I suspect it will be contracted out...outsourced, if you will, well-connected companies....

[patrice]

2. I am thinking about standing with those who refuse to go.

Talk about growth in government power - screw things up so bad that a bunch of people die un-necessarily, then take your property away from you because their developers can make more money with than you can.

[judy]

3. I don't know what WPA means,

but I agree with patrice, that the general idea should be that evacuees will get jobs rebuilding their city, if not their own houses...
So they would not have the feeling that they are cut off from their past lives just like that, and it would give them something to do and some $$ to rebuild their lives and to support their families.

But that would be at a different time and in a different country with different leaders...

On edit: it must feel to them right now that their city has been stolen, and will never be given back. It will be gentryfied and they will never be able to return. That's how I would feel I think...

[patrice]

7. Public works administration.

I don't know how it got turned around to WPA. I should research this a little shouldn't I.

[patrice]

10. Works Progress Administration

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Where's FDR when you need him?? n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

5. He, along with our founding fathers

can currently be found spinning in their graves. If only we could harness this power, we might end our dependence on foreign oil. :)

[patrice]

6. Thanks! I needed that!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[JHB]

11. If * could harness them...

...he'd use them for drill bits for oil and gas wells.

[Skidmore]

8. When I called my legislators yesterday

I demanded that they do just this. Do not give contracts to Halliburton and to hire the men and women of NO to rebuild their city, if that is the plan for the area.

[Crankie Avalon]

9. Not while the current gang are in charge...

...they're going to be parceling out the contracts to their own--with all the kickbacks and cost overruns they can scarf up, with no involvement from the local people (the same way they're "rebuilding" Iraq).