Hiryuu
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There were vast differences between the New Deal programs of the 1930's and the attempt at creating shovel ready jobs in the Obama administration. The stimulus money was legislated in a way that allowed local governments to spend the stimulus funds in ways of their choosing and most used the funds to supplement their failing budgets by spending the funds on keeping their teachers, police, etc. on the payroll, leaving very little left for new projects or "shovel ready" new jobs. In addition, those funds dried up pretty fast. The New Deal programs were active for years and many were based on loans to states for Federally approved projects in the individual state. By the way, the states ended up paying all those loans off and projects funded by those loans ended up costing the Federal government very little.
Well I never really said they were the same, the CCC did some good work that provided us with development that is still in service today in some cases, and you bet the money dries up really fast when you use it pay-off your friends/cronies. I wouldn't ever put President Obama's intentions in line with anything associated with the CCC, or anything they stood for.