The symbol of our future

President Obama announced today that his administration will begin stamping an emblem on projects funded by the economic stimulus package so that people can easily recognize the effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. All projects will be stamped with the ARRA logo (short for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) and lists the recovery.gov website on the emblem.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/emblems-to-stam.html

Onward.

Symbols are an important means of communication. Thank you for posting this.

Nominated.

And let's not forget Harold Ickes helped bring us the Marian Anderson concert at the Lincoln Memorial. He'd been head of the Chicago NAACP. And UNDERrated New Dealer.



http://www.slate.com/id/2209781/

Really, is there NOTHING those guys and gals don't think of? :applause:

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I bet the Freepers heads will explode while they scream "OMG, SOCIALISM!!!" when they see the gears on the red background. :evilgrin: :rofl:

The plant looks a little too much like the symbol for that company in Michael Clayton. Still though, clean and pretty.

I thought the same thing!

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WPA anyone?

Yep, history does repeat itself, absolutely

He was one of the dynamite men on the roads projects in West Virginia and Southern Ohio. Every time I take a trip through W.V. I think of him and his crews! What a great job they did! Thanks Dad - You rocked!

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REFLECTIONS: The WPA
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman

http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2009/02/reflections-the-wpa.html

Sometimes, like now, I think those macro-economists, to turn a phrase, can’t see the trees for the forest. That is, they talk in big, big numbers, and averages, and means and median, but they miss the important little things, like people.

(snip)

I don’t really know whether the great jobs programs of the New Deal got us out of the Depression. But it doesn’t matter. More important than the macro arguments, is what the much-maligned Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps did for virtually every state and hundreds of towns in America, and the millions of men, women and children it helped during the hard times. Those benefits are still being seen and felt 60 years later.

When I lived in right-wing, anti-federal government Texas (which hasn’t changed much) it came as a shock to the know-nothings when I wrote that their beloved Alamo in downtown San Antonio was restored with the help of the WPA. And the city’s beautiful River Walk was the muddy San Antonio River until WPA workers fixed it up with landscaping, stone work, and walkways and lovely stone bridges that still stand. Today, the River Walk is at the center of the city’s life, with restaurants, shops and barges that ply the river serving dinner to tourists.

While browsing the web in search of more information about the WPA, which was renamed the Works Project Administration in 1939, I discovered that the WPA also built the obelisk of the San Jacinto monument outside Houston, which marks the battle in 1836 that gave Texas (and much of the west) its independence from Mexico.

If I may digress, I like the true story about how a slightly wounded Sam Houston and the captured General Santa Anna, made peace sitting under a tree smoking dope.

But closer to my point - that it’s the little things that count a lot - was this note that I came across from the University of Georgia Libraries, commenting on its collection of photographs that

“...chronicle the various WPA projects which took place in Georgia. The projects were the same in most all of the states and included basic work such as street building and repair.”

One such project was a beautiful, stone monument to the town of Cassville, which was burned to the ground in Sherman’s march across the state.

The WPA, born in 1935 at an initial cost of $4.8 billion, was at the time, the largest “relief” program in American history (now it’s called “stimulus”). By 1941, when spending on the coming war pulled America out of the lingering slump, WPA had cost $11.4 billion and put eight million men and women to work building 1,634 public schools, 105 airports, 3,000 tennis courts, 5,800 libraries, 3,300 storage dams, hundreds of miles of roads, sewer lines, while the CCC built roads through national and state parks, fire towers, and scores of campgrounds, many of which are in use today.

I doubt if George Bush even suspected that his weekend retreat, Camp David, which Franklin Roosevelt called Shangri-la, was built by the WPA as a recreation area in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. Do baseball fans know that WPA workers built Doubleday Field, in Cooperstown, New York, in 1939 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of America’s pastime on that hallowed ground?

The architecturally unique bridges of the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut were built by the WPA. Not until 1937 did New York City get an airport, La Guardia Field (named after the city’s New Deal era mayor), with its beautiful art-deco main terminal, all built by WPA labor.

(More at the link)

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Wow! That is impressive!

dp

Hope those gears speed up.

Good post Will.

K & R

We have a future!!!

(You are a hope-monger, Pitt. Nice logo.)

Or today's benefits...

at their expense.

looted the treasury, destroyed the economy, and created more debt than all previous presidents, including even your idol Reagan-Bush, who held the previous record.

a Democrat or Republican.

They (the Dems and Repubs) are more than willing to spend our children's monies to pay for our indulgences today.

My guy or girl will not do so, when he or she will be elected.

You don't have to.

All you have to do is have the courage to take most of the monies from one piece of this pie (can you guess which one?)...



and move it to some other areas.

Otherwise, and with either the Dems or the Repubs, you have...

The last Dem left a surplus. All of your party left a deficit.

reading another person's explicit thoughts inaccurately?

Maybe if I repeat them, it might sink in you a little better.

What's a virtual neighbor for, eh?

I don't support or vote for anyone who is willing to spend our children's monies to pay for our indulgences today.

Which means that I don't support or vote for Democrats or Republicans.

I only support and vote for men and women who are willing to glut our bloated budget for the military industrial complex...

and put it in more important expenditure areas.

You can pay for universal health benefits for every American... if you had the balls to do that.

But the two parties don't.

Have the scrotum to do the right thing, that is.

The definition of a recession is a decline in GDP which is a measure of consumer spending, government spending, investment spending and the net of exports verses imports. It's simple macroeconomics.

GDP = C + I + G + (X − M)

In an economy where all else is drying up, the ONLY recourse to stop the economy from further shrinking and preventing MORE job losses (and a greater decline in tax REVENUES) is to INCREASE GOVERNMENT SPENDING, which you oppose.

You would be hard pressed to find many people on DU who oppose cutting the military, but that is NOT what this discussion is about, nor was is it your original premise that we should not be increasing government spending.

unless you like pizza?

decline even more, worsening the deficit and further extending the economic decline for many more years, don't you? And you also need to consider the COST of doing nothing about our crumbling infrastructure, our dependence on foreign oil, etc. Would you put off making repairs to your roof because you don't want to go into debt, only to have the entire roof fall in on you?

There are NO perfect solutions left at this point. It's a matter of charting the best course, which is why I support the recovery plan.