The WPA wasn't just about employing the low-skilled. There was the Writers' Project, the Theater Project, etc. Unemployment can be soaked up in different sections of the labor force. Are there not unmet needs that skilled workers from the IT sector could meet?
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Max Sawicky<[email protected]> wrote: > Re: WPA, another note. This is a good way of scooping up the > immiserated low-wage labor market. But unemployment is pervasive at > multiple wage levels. It ain't the 30s with masses of starving > low-skilled workers and rural folks. Can we envision skilled workers > from the IT sector or women retail workers hunkering down in public > works projects? I can't. > > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Max Sawicky<[email protected]> wrote: >> We were talking about stimulus, not the whole enchilada. With respect >> to that in particular: >> >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Carrol Cox<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Max Sawicky wrote: >>>> What should he do that he hasn't done, as far as stimulus goes? >>> >>> Propose (and put real pressure on Congresds to obey) repeal of >>> Taft-Hartley. > Propose and really push for repeal of the "Double-Dip" >>> lefislation. >> (Not sure what this refers to. The Baskin-Robbins Act?) >>> Propose a National Health Service and threaten to resign if not >>> approved. >>> Propose tax levels be returned to those of the 1950s. >>> Reinstitute AFDC, without the police functions of that program. >> >> All off-point. >> >>> Resume Revenue Sharing with the States. He should be at least as >>> 'progressive' as Nixon. >> >> Actually the stimulus dough is much bigger than revenue sharing was. >> >>> Create a WPA (not a PWA or other such shuffle). >> >> The stimulus package is WPA by other means. >> >> Re: Shane >> >> The package is of a similar order of magnitude as the state-local >> sector's deficit. I would have been for more. Not obvious to me it >> would have "sailed through." For one thing, Members of Congress >> (Democrats included) are not fond of their state-local counterparts. >> Congress gets all the flak for taxing or spending, the states have all >> the fun of handing out the goodies. >> I could easily imagine a contentious conversation about the merits of >> bailing out California, a non-trivial part of whose travails are >> self-inflicted (dopey budget rules and tax limitations). >> > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
