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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
It's been a month, but I haven't stopped thinking.
I love 600 KOGO in San Diego for three reasons:
Coast to Coast w/ George Noory (although I miss Art Bell. Who doesn't?)
Conservative Political Talk Radio (Rush, Hitchcock, etc.)
Dr. Laura (This one is complicated. Maybe I will have to address this in another blog.)
Today's post is primarily concerned with Conservative Talk Radio. I will be the first to admit that I do not sit anywhere near the typical audience demographics for these shows. If fact, these guys love to insult leftist, liberal, socialist, college students like myself. I don't mind. Honestly, I love hearing alternative approaches to solving our country's issues. Oh yeah, and the occasional redneck yelling about killing hippie communists.
But all this "stimulus" talk and raising taxes and a poor economy has really got me thinking. I have been hunting for a steady job for the last month and a half. Pretty diligently in fact. I have gone to probably 17-18 interviews, sent my resume to over 300 contacts. Needless to say, this all feels to close to home when mentioning a rising unemployment rate.
And if economic hardship isn't enough, now I hear more about our crumbling infrastructure. Roads in horrible shape. Power and water is not meeting the demand of growth. Not to mention I still cant get cell reception in Southern Utah...
The big question in this whole debacle is why hasn't someone put these pieces together yet? I mean, my second favorite president, FDR, (second to the American Lion, Andrew Jackson, and slightly above his fifth cousin Teddy) had his "New Deal" which included programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration, and the Civil Works Administration whos entire objective was to build up infrastructure and create jobs. Roads, buildings, telephone lines, power lines, parks, sewer lines, bridges and even beekeeping, archaeological excavation, and furniture manufacturing. In doing some research, I was surprised to see an 82% approval rating for the CCC. Not to mention really neat projects like Timberline Lodge, which I used to visit all the time as a kid.
It saddens me that all we can think about is strict dollar amounts. We have leadership that can't get more creative than just throwing money at us. Look, sure, I would love a few hundred dollars. But I would love a job. I want to work, and hard. But I can't seem to find any opportunities at this time. I know, I know, unemployment isn't at that 25% it was during the depression era. So what? Let's build half as many lodges as we did in the thirties. Let's focus on improving infrastructure in America's worst cities.
I realize this post winds through talk radio to basically let say how awesome it would be to work on some really cool civil engineering projects. Maybe I will just have to get on the phone suggest this to Rush...
Coast to Coast w/ George Noory (although I miss Art Bell. Who doesn't?)
Conservative Political Talk Radio (Rush, Hitchcock, etc.)
Dr. Laura (This one is complicated. Maybe I will have to address this in another blog.)
Today's post is primarily concerned with Conservative Talk Radio. I will be the first to admit that I do not sit anywhere near the typical audience demographics for these shows. If fact, these guys love to insult leftist, liberal, socialist, college students like myself. I don't mind. Honestly, I love hearing alternative approaches to solving our country's issues. Oh yeah, and the occasional redneck yelling about killing hippie communists.
But all this "stimulus" talk and raising taxes and a poor economy has really got me thinking. I have been hunting for a steady job for the last month and a half. Pretty diligently in fact. I have gone to probably 17-18 interviews, sent my resume to over 300 contacts. Needless to say, this all feels to close to home when mentioning a rising unemployment rate.
And if economic hardship isn't enough, now I hear more about our crumbling infrastructure. Roads in horrible shape. Power and water is not meeting the demand of growth. Not to mention I still cant get cell reception in Southern Utah...
The big question in this whole debacle is why hasn't someone put these pieces together yet? I mean, my second favorite president, FDR, (second to the American Lion, Andrew Jackson, and slightly above his fifth cousin Teddy) had his "New Deal" which included programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration, and the Civil Works Administration whos entire objective was to build up infrastructure and create jobs. Roads, buildings, telephone lines, power lines, parks, sewer lines, bridges and even beekeeping, archaeological excavation, and furniture manufacturing. In doing some research, I was surprised to see an 82% approval rating for the CCC. Not to mention really neat projects like Timberline Lodge, which I used to visit all the time as a kid.
It saddens me that all we can think about is strict dollar amounts. We have leadership that can't get more creative than just throwing money at us. Look, sure, I would love a few hundred dollars. But I would love a job. I want to work, and hard. But I can't seem to find any opportunities at this time. I know, I know, unemployment isn't at that 25% it was during the depression era. So what? Let's build half as many lodges as we did in the thirties. Let's focus on improving infrastructure in America's worst cities.
I realize this post winds through talk radio to basically let say how awesome it would be to work on some really cool civil engineering projects. Maybe I will just have to get on the phone suggest this to Rush...
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