Prev: Folded Dipole Calculator Help
Next: s
From: Moe Trin on 21 Nov 2009 20:23
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.wireless, in article
<9ndeg5pk60i4k8oblhm522b0hdro0n4pjo(a)4ax.com>, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

>(Moe Trin) wrote:

>>But do we really _need_ a railroad bridge out to the Farallones?[1] Or
>>is that merely a federal... an imperial "make-work" project?

>Ummm... You're behind the times. "Make work" was the mantra of the
>WPA and the 1929 Depression era public works projects. This is the
>21st century and it's now called "job creation" as in the economic
>stimulus package.

Actually, I was originally thinking of using a WPA or CCC reference,
but figured neither would translate for younger or foreign readers.

>Both are famous for creating highways in the sky, so expect similar
>results.

Ah, but this was a _railroad_ in the sky. Come to think of it, I
don't believe the "Pulaski Skyway" (US highways 1 and 9 from just West
of the Holland Tunnel to Newark airport, built across the Hackensak
marsh), "Sunshine Skyway" (I 275 across the mouth of Tampa bay in
Florida), "Highway to the Stars" (San Diego county route S2 that runs
up to the Mount Palomar observatory) or "Overseas Highway" (US highway
1 in the Florida keys) were WPA projects. They were just _ordinary_
pork-barrel projects.

Old guy
First  |  Prev  | 
Pages: 1 2 3 4
Prev: Folded Dipole Calculator Help
Next: s