Good morning everyone, I'm standing in for Smiley today.

Several weeks ago smiley made a comment about the WPA as a model to help solve some of our massive unemployment. The Works Progress Administration was put into place in 1935 and lasted until 1940. It was a ...

...gigantic new program of emergency employment. The new measure would give three and a half million jobs... The program would cost nearly $5 billion, making it far and away the largest single appropriation of money by the United States or any other nation in history.