I wish we had something like the WPA today. Give people, including those on
welfare, a chance to provide for their
families while doing worthwhile work and then watch what happens to the
economy and peoples lives!

Pam


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cleveland, Kyle E."

> Pam, I can't take credit for that one.  I got it from my father, a
> Dixie-crat who felt that the Kennedy's ruined the party--a stance made
even
> stronger by his hero-worship of FDR and the WPA, NRA, etc.  My grandfather
> kept his family alive by building post offices throughout the Deep South
for
> $1/day as a WPA carpenter.  Anyway, Daddy has an old wheeze, "They should
> never have shot Jack or Bobby in the '60s--they should have got Rose and
> that old ^$$%!!, Joe in the '20s."
>
> The Old Man has softened quite a bit in his politics in the last few
years,
> though he's never forgiven Kennedy and Johnson for sending him to watch
his
> friends die for naught South East Asia.
>
> Kyle