Comments | songbird44: bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps!

songbird44

bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps!

Dec 05, 2008 22:11

Last week, Ron Judd in his Trail Mix column in the Seattle Times made a very persuasive case for bringing back the CCC. It's a win-win all around: There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of infrastructure projects in the National Forest Service and National Parks Service backlog, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people out ( Read more... )

forests, bailout package, job creation, ccc, forest service, national parks, jay inslee

Comments 2

anonymous January 22 2009, 16:25:53 UTC

I've been talking about this with some folks for quite a while now. I'm 25,unmarried, I have a teaching degree and I can't find a job. I'm from a small town in Arkansas and very much accustomed to manual labor. I mean, there are so many things that need to be done and I'm baffled at the fact that we're spending so much money bailing out banks when we could be investing a fraction of that amount by setting up jobs for the thousands of other american like myself. Geeze. I get so wound up about it I can never really organize my thoughts. I'm glad I decided to check out if anyone else was interested. Maybe I'll write my congresswoman...

songbird44 January 23 2009, 05:49:53 UTC

I hope you do that (contact your congresswoman) and that you're successful in getting the idea across to her. It's just common sense.

Good luck in your job search - I'm in the same boat!