A thought to thing on.

With the thought of all the unemployment and all, Let,s look back at the past. Our gov . and states has been looking at furture water supplys. Why not set up another program like they did with WPA. Iam 67yrs young. So far at our age we made it through it all. WE took our bumps and grinds. Take all unemployed start new progams, don't call it wpa. Call it help your self. WE need new water supplies, If you are under 55 you get payed a good wage, not prevailng , If on welfare and you don't want to work you lose it. Plain and simple.It would increase our water supply,help unemployment, boast the econmy,put people back to work help our own country. It would make good use of the EQIPMENT comming back from over the wars, and put our people back to work. If you agree chime IN. LET's RAISE HELL

Well, it's a nice simple solution to a problem......but you know what politicians do to simple? They ugly it all up. They turn it into something totally unrecognizable from the original idea. They would have to "study" it....that would cost a bazillion $$. Then there would be two groups, the group that wants it bigger, and the group that doesn't want it at all. They would have to be taken care of. Then politician A wouldn't give it his vote until some of his special "pork" got written into the bill. Politician B sees that politician A is getting special treatment so he insists that some of his "pork" got in there too. You know where this is going, don't you? Our government only knows how to spend money and screw things up. This nice simple solution to a problem would be a bill over 1000 pages long and it would be another bailout and our grandchildren's grandchildren would be paying for it.

But it is a nice simple solution to a problem.

WORK FOR MY WELFARE.......WTF

Just kidding
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Your suggestion looks good on paper. Unfortunately these types of programs do not create wealth and sustain production. It's a short term solution to a long term problem. Only the wealthy would benefit from an infrastructure program such as this. Not to mention that all the funding would have to come from an already bankrupt government which would mean more taxes or monetization(inflation) to fund the program. Also these programs steal productive farm land away from property owners through iminent domain. The only thing that will turn this boat around is growth around Mining, Agriculture & Manufacturing and the operations that support these endeavors. These are the only real sources wealth creation when a product is made into something more valuble. This is why China is kicking our butts economically.
I recommend a good read called 'The road to serfdom' by Hayek. It's good read about the ills of centralized planning. What we are experiencing is the result of centralized planning.