"Ironically, many of the limits placed on big construction projects are legacies of the reaction against New Deal-style projects. Bonneville and the other dams on the Columbia were built with little transparency and virtually no regard for the havoc they eventually caused for the river’s ecology. The dams decimated the salmon population and destroyed Native American fishing grounds"
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Nope, we are told FDR saved America with his New Deal.
"No repeat of the New Deal jump-start; Stimulus work slow at storied Oregon site" by Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Correspondent | July 20, 2009
BONNEVILLE DAM, Ore. - Seven decades later, the Obama administration’s drive to spark another job-creating energy revolution through stimulus spending is off to a slower start....
I told you, the Stimulus Was Stolen.
Of course, that doesn't stop them from lying about it, either.
The Bonneville Power Administration received billions to expand its wind power grid. But only one of the envisioned transmission lines is underway, forecast to produce 700 jobs, and the others are years away from breaking ground.
And we have LOST MILLIONS of JOBS!!!
Looking more and more like the Spanish are right!
Also see: Public Loot For Private Projects
In the end, the number of jobs created won’t come close to matching the army of impoverished loggers who signed on to mix concrete and install Bonneville’s massive turbines during the depths of the Depression. The situation in Oregon, which has been hit hard by the recession and ranks third only to Michigan and Rhode Island in unemployment at 12.2 percent in June, is representative of larger concerns about Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan: that times have changed to the point where no president can funnel money into infrastructure spending quickly enough to provide the major economic jolt that stimulus supporters promised....
Look at them MAKING EXCUSES for the guy after they BROW-BEAT the PUBLIC for it -- and are making noises of a SECOND STEALING, 'er, STIMULUS!
Obama administration officials insist that the stimulus plan is beginning to work. But overall, the infusion of federal cash into construction, healthcare, energy, and tax cuts has failed to match the Obama administration’s predictions for job creation.
Translation: We were lied to so the Democrats could get their pork and pet projects through.
When the program was under debate in January, the administration predicted it would keep unemployment below 8 percent, but the national jobless rate rose to 9.5 percent last month, and many economists now expect it to hit double digits....
Environmental reviews are not the only cause of delay on stimulus energy projects in the Northwest....
I'm glad this time!
A separate provision of the stimulus was supposed to provide $6 billion in loans to private companies to spur construction of more windmills, but the rules have been bottled up in Washington amid a dispute over how to administer the program. A Department of Energy spokeswoman, Ebony Meeks, said the loan program is still under development.
Ironically, many of the limits placed on big construction projects are legacies of the reaction against New Deal-style projects. Bonneville and the other dams on the Columbia were built with little transparency and virtually no regard for the havoc they eventually caused for the river’s ecology. The dams decimated the salmon population and destroyed Native American fishing grounds - a cultural and environmental toll that inspired its own artistic legacy in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’’
For many rural areas in the Pacific Northwest, however, the completion of Bonneville was an economic windfall that is still remembered fondly....
Yes, the American capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me.
