The Really: This is going to get worse before it gets better.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced with a worldwide depression and a lack of national will helped invigorate the nation and actually built stuff and fixed stuff through the NRA and WPA. Likely he was just throwing something against the wall to see if it stuck, but the program for its failings did build things and fix things and even employed the creative writers and painters of the day to catalog and improve American culture.
A national WPA of computer geeks could fix the ATC system, improve national security through fixing the no-fly list, make government computer systems more efficient and save money by reducing government waste. It might even make a better cell phone or music player!
The well-educated creative underclass now faced with an ailing economy and the choice of working at coffee shops or recycling bottles and cans, could actually improve the educational system increasing the the USA's competitive standing in the world and provide new creative output of lasting quality.
The WPA didn't last long as long as other government programs but was intregal to the recovery of the country during some very dark days. Now back to our previously scheduled nasty little election.
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