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The new deal must be government run industry when they are talking about "rebuilding the infrastructure" and "rebuilding our schools", the LAST thing we want to see is "privatized’ industry given our assets.
Privatization pf "the commons" is NEVER more efficient then that government administering those services, I do not want to see "vouchers" for school rebuilding, I do not want to see private companies given the funds needed to rebuild our bridges and tolls, I want government over site and I want government supplied union jobs.
Here’s a quote from the next president’s recent address concerning his economic recovery plan;
Second, we will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s. We’ll invest your precious tax dollars in new and smarter ways, and we’ll set a simple rule – use it or lose it. If a state dozen’t act quickly to invest in roads and bridges in their communities, they’ll lose the money.
I do not want to see states getting away with hiring their friends industry to do the peoples work, if that happens there will be campaign contributions and companies will be buying their way into the recovery, they will try to use non union jobs so they can turn more profit and that is simply too much overhead.
Government rebuilding must be done by the government and the jobs must pay living or union wages
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For many years, states have built their major infrastructure through a system of hiring private contractors, with administration and oversight by government engineers and other employees. It is hard to imagine this changing much, at least in the short term. The key is to use competitive bidding and real oversight to keep the private contractors honest.
The only real construction assets the Federal government has are the military engineering units: SeaBees in the Navy, the Army Corps of Engineers and Combat Engineer brigades. I’m not sure what the airforce calls their engineering assets.
No states have any construction assets that I’m aware of.
Bottom line, there aren’t any government assets that could do all the building that is required. What can (and should) be done is to keep the design and supervision in the hands of government entities.
how did fdr impliment his new deal?
the industry of buying hardware could use a stimulous as well
at any rate you guys are probably right so I guess what’s left is a real workable bidding process, one that insists on union laborers not one that bids out the lowest price
and one that insists on inspection of the product and quality being installed in a granular level, every step of the way with the inspector signing off, I would even like redundant inspections from differant agencies so graph becomes harder to accomplish
A lot of FDR’s New Deal was performed under contract. I’m thinking of the TVA in particular. The dams (and the impounded water) were owned by the quasi-governmental Tennessee Valley Authority, but the construction work was done under contract by private firms.
All of the war materiel for World War II was built by private concerns, often with production facilities diverted from civilian concerns. Musical instrument builders (C.G. Conn, Vincent Bach and some others) built precision aircraft/naval instrumentation. GM built tanks/aircraft, etc.
got it, logistically we have to contract out the projects
Pretty much, yeah.
As I recall my history, the CCC and especially the WPA were much hated by Republicans of the time.
“Privatization” Just one of the ways the repiglicans have made good their promise to drown our Govt in a bathtub! Before we can save America we must expose the Right and vanquish their tactics.