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title: Public Works
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- culture
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- politics
- quote
- security
- aside
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> Once, some time ago, during another time of economic downturn, a president named Roosevelt created a federal program called the Works Progress Administration. It hired unemployed people to construct buildings, dams, roads, river works, ports, bridges and schools. Is there any possibility of a program like that today? Not a dream. That would be "socialism." You can't have the federal government spending our tax dollars to fund public works. But spending them to grope our genitals? Why, that's different. It's a matter of principle.
> - Roger Ebert, [Where I draw the line][1] (25 November 2010)

   [1]: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/11/where_i_draw_the_line.html
