I remember reading the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey travel books in the Seventies. I thought they were science fiction.

... and totally misleading.

Carol, have you even bothered to look into this program? I've give you a pointer: Salon has lots of articles discussing the WPA, which is responsible for a great deal of the present infrastructure of the U.S. It's not make-work, as you seem to argue. It's infrastructure investment.

I get enough of this kind of misinformation from the Fox/Republican axis.

Not to explain a joke, but it's as if HOLLYWOOD had invented the WPA, capische?

PS: I like it when Carol stars in her own cartoons!

1. The joke was stolen from an old pre-Conrad Conradian (Protoconrad?)

2. Hollywood filmrushes are much larger than that puny hole.

3. The money each character received was way too much for WPA standards- and the workforce way too small.

4. Carol dosen't quite look like her inked self AND she wouldn't qualify for the job (even though Diego Rivera (amoung many other big names, did).

5. Infastructure doesn't come close to holes in the ground (How that 30's/40's rightinst imagery has clung to our graphic genepool!)

C.L. left out the part about all the craftspeople struggling to get the check out of the Labor Dpt. before the eviction notice takes effect.

It seems like Carol Lay is slamming the WPA. I doubt that's her intention. At least I hope it's not her intent because I usually like her strips.

I hope she's not jumping the shark.

But the Canuck's right. We could use those FDR-type programs right now. Contrary to what the right would say, those programs, not World War II, are what brought us out of the Depression. We also got a lot of great infrastructure and did some great environmental restoration through programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps.

All WWII did was create a different type of Depression. Americans were put back to work, but resources like paper, metals, food, rubber, petroleum products, to say nothing of manpower, were being diverted for wartime uses. Anybody remember or read about rationing?

So Americans had money again, but they couldn't get what they wanted or needed...At least not in any decent quantity.

We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.

That explains so much about your posts. I guess education was pretty shitty in the CCCP also. I 1930s America Socialism worked. It worked really well. It put people back to work doing real jobs for real money. The electricity for the computer I'm typing on right now comes from one of three dams on the Columbia river that was built by a deal programs. It's some of the cheapest, cleanest energy available anywhere. I drive at least ones a week on a highway that was built by the WPA. This summer, as I have every summer for the last 13 years, I'm going to go camping. I'll be eating in a lodge built by the CCC in a campground that was also built by the CCC. When I went skying a couple of months ago I stayed in a lodge that had also been built by the CCC. Everybody in this entire country, if they are paying any attention could tell you a similar story. The New Deal wasn't make work. 60 years later we're still getting something for our money.