Sioux City Prospers during the Depression

[Peacetrain]

Of course I post it in the wrong place without thinking. But the link below was to an article in our local paper on how Sioux City, prospered with the New Deal Programs.. maybe we should send the link to Grassley!

Newspaper article link
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/02/08/news/top/b94113d8d999a27a862575550071b9c4.txt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5014451

[47of74]

1. Dubuque benefited too

The WPA helped renovate Eagle Point Park and build the pavilions found throughout the park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Point_Park

[progressoid]

2. I see that the right wing intelligentsia are setting the record straight in the comment section.

Oy :eyes:

[47of74]

3. The GOP Keyboard Commando Brigade

Every news organization that allows comments on their stories seems to pick up a brigade of GOP Keyboard Commandos.

[Peacetrain]

4. That is the truth.. the same people over and over and over again

[rurallib]

5. The south was also one of the major beneficiaries of New Deal stimulus

those parts of the country that were the furthest behind got the biggest bump from the New Deal. The TVA is the biggest example of what the South got. The South also had at that time congresscritters with seniority in the Dem party so they could help steer bucks to the South.
Of course now we know that the New Deal never worked thanks to FUX news.

[Peacetrain]

6. I pulled this from the original thread, where another poster had left a link

JAMES GALBRAITH: Well, first of all, there is a grave understatement in those arguments about what the New Deal actually did. And that understatement is typically because the unemployment figures that many people are accustomed to using for the 1930s don’t count people who actually worked for the New Deal. This is Michael Steele’s distinction between jobs and work. But people who were building the Lincoln Tunnel or the Triborough Bridge or the aircraft carrier Yorktown are counted as work relief and not as employed, and there were many millions of those. And when you put them into the figures, you find that the New Deal actually reduced unemployment from 25 percent in 1933 to about—to less than ten percent in 1936. It went up again in ’37 and then came back down again to about ten percent before the war. So, a major, major improvement in unemployment did occur under the New Deal.

[47of74]

7. This time they should be made to stand in the back of the F-ing line