tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post4162565966386972310..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Dean Baker's "Third Round"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-50269520725849831492009-03-22T05:24:00.000-04:002009-03-22T05:24:00.000-04:00If I were an American I would be much more interes...If I were an American I would be much more interested in direct Govt. employment. In a recent <A HREF="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0903.galbraith.html" REL="nofollow">Washington Monthly article</A> (ack. Economist's View), Jamie Galbraith referred to a paper by M.Auerback in which Auerback listed some of the things accomplished by direct Govt. employment during the Depression in the US:<BR/><BR/><I>"[Roosevelt’s] government hired about 60 per cent of the unemployed in public works and conservation projects that planted a billion trees, saved the whooping crane, modernized rural America, and built such diverse projects as the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh, the Montana state capitol, much of the Chicago lakefront, New York’s Lincoln Tunnel and Triborough Bridge complex, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. It also built or renovated 2,500 hospitals, 45,000 schools, 13,000 parks and playgrounds, 7,800 bridges, 700,000 miles of roads, and a thousand airfields. And it employed 50,000 teachers, rebuilt the country’s entire rural school system, and hired 3,000 writers, musicians, sculptors and painters, including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock."</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-53394170260781529362009-03-21T07:03:00.000-04:002009-03-21T07:03:00.000-04:00Sandwichman,Beth Isreal Hospital is doing an equiv...Sandwichman,<BR/><BR/>Beth Isreal Hospital is doing an equivalent through reduction in salaries, starting with the CEO and the Board (many who are docs).<BR/><BR/>No details yet.Rdanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285598945075456626noreply@blogger.com