A new WPA program to help restore America and put us back to work? Maybe so.

Here is an interesting post from SIOA. FDR and WPA program had many good things in it. Many of those are still with us today. The last thing our country needs is another stimulus program like the first one. While the WPA was far from perfect(what program is?) it may be a better idea, retooled for the current current times that we live in. Our enemies feed of our own weakness. Islam thrives on the bodies of the weak.

Just thinking out loud a bit. What is said about our education system is true. When nations ignore their own history, and history in  general, they fall.

WPA poster

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Revisiting the WPA. Time to consider an updated version?

Applying the Lessons of History: A New WPA

D.L. Adams

SIOA


During times of national crisis leaders are called upon to lead; they are expected to lead. We now enter the second year of the administration of “hope and change” but there appears to be a deep disconnect between the governed and the governing.

It was with growing dismay and disillusion that all politics at the nation’s capital were subsumed by the failed “Health Care Insurance Reform” thrust upon the country by the ruling party. Even now as the stock market teeters just above 10,000 on bad news and more to come, and the recent election of Scott Brown to represent that formerly all “blue state” of Massachusetts in the Senate signaled the rejection of the Health Care Reform and of the tunnel vision and denial coming from Washington, the message from the White House and the Congress is not one of recovery but more of the same.

“Health Care Reform” appears to be dead to the entirety of the country but for the executive branch at Washington and their supporters in the Congress. This is a dangerous disconnect and leaves more critical and pressing matters unaddressed and unresolved.

The unemployment situation and the economic decline of our country (but for some bailed-out incompetent institutions on Wall Street) are signals to the president that drastic action must be taken (and rapidly) to alleviate the suffering of the people. Instead we continue to hear the president talking again about “health care reform”; this is sham leadership. This failure on the part of the administration to effectively lead the country out of these crises will likely have devastating consequences.

Leadership has always been about character, not academic experience or accolades (be they earned or not). The foundation of American leadership has always been based on the ability to listen, to weigh alternatives, and guide the nation on the most effective course – characteristics now shown to be absent in the present administration. In times past our leaders guided the nation through worse crises than the ones we currently face – a seemingly perfect storm of difficulties and disappointments, dangers and deceits. We should look to our past once again for guidance.

The staggering inability of the Obama administration only one year into its rule to deal with these numerous crises, even with control of both houses of Congress, may say more about our higher education system than anything else but that lesson has yet to be verified.

What is sure is that our executive branch leaders and their sycophants in Congress, most with expensive and formerly impressive academic degrees from once respectable institutions whose import and effectiveness are now all in doubt, have failed in the fundamental concern of education itself. The academic credentials of the present administration are most impressive, yet the holders of these degrees fail to impress with resolutions and resolute leading-by-example. There is no “follow me!” rhetoric of leadership to victory, only the dull thuds of “obey”, and “well, you folks don’t know what is good for you, but I sure do!” Continue reading

Hat tip: SIOA

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