Fact or Fiction?

This is a bumper sticker on the back of my vehicle and it is a message I truly believe. The bailout failed to pass in Congress. Fantastic! The politicians blamed each other while I sat back and thought about the several times I tried to call my members and found the phone lines constantly busy or off the hook (in the case of Sen. Mel Martinez). I think the truth for the failure of the passage is due to a high volume of "NO BAILOUT" cries by the public citizens and astute economic advisers and other educated people who know this bailout is a LOSER!

I was thinking about that money. And then I thought about how that money could be best spent. What happened the last time our country was nearing or in a severe recession/depression? The WPA was created. That is right. The economic bailout came in the form of WORK. Real work!!! No welfare handout!

Here is a clip from Wikipedia on the story of the WPA...."The WPA employed a maximum of 3.3 million in November 1938. Worker pay was based on three factors: the region of the country, the degree of urbanization and the individual's skill. It varied from $19/month to $94/month. The goal was to pay the local prevailing wage, but to limit a person to 30 hours or less a week of work. Total expenditures on WPA projects through June, 1941, totaled approximately $11.4 billion. Over $4 billion was spent on highway, road, and street projects; more than $1 billion on public buildings; more than $1 billion on publicly owned or operated utilities; and another $1 billion on welfare projects including sewing projects for women, the distribution of surplus commodities and school lunch projects.

I encourage you to read the rest of the story about the largest employment project this country has ever undertaken to inspire a strong work ethic (something the multi and trans-national corporate executives know very little about given their GROSS pay and golden parachute packages) and revive a heart-beat from the dying country we call our home. We have the answers to the problems we are facing. But these solutions are not coming from the criminals who perpetrated the economic crimes we have been faced with, and in some cases, engaging in due to a lack of substantial ways for average citizens to become involved in civic participation in any real or meaningful way.

I believe the people who can rescue our economy are the people who want to work and pay their bills and taxes that contribute to their community.....not to an institution (Wall St.) that engages in business with companies that "cook the books", encourage poor or NO leadership where the head of a corporation gets a boot in the ass out the door with the money safe under his or her arm, encouraging offshoring jobs to increase stock prices, and other egregious acts against the workers in our own country!!!

The biggest golden parachute will be this $700 billion dollar one if Congress passes it. KEEP UP THE PHONE CALLS TO WASHINGTON!!! Let's get a NEW DEAL that puts Americans back to work!!

Passionately.....

Emma : )