Comments on: American-Made by Nick Taylor http://calitreview.com/392 Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:56:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sylvia Cooke http://calitreview.com/392/comment-page-1#comment-12260 Sylvia Cooke Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:54:48 +0000 http://calitreview.com/topics/economics/392/#comment-12260 I disagree with Linda Jones when she wrote, "take a snapshot of America today and it has a look of the 1930's in it". Sorry, no comparison. Today our culture wants more and more things, cars, toys, etc. I remember very clearly how my father changed when he was able to work for the WPA; he had been a master printer. All his life and that of my family was a life of making do with as little as possible, the best things in life are free. However, I do see help for this country if programs such as WPA and CCC could be put into effect. What it would take is a leader, a real inspired leader who is not afraid of government involvement in repairing and restorint the intra-structure of this country. Someone like F.D.R. but I don't see anyone at this time coming even close. However, I'm always an optomist and you never know the potential people have. I disagree with Linda Jones when she wrote, “take a snapshot of America today and it has a look of the 1930’s in it”. Sorry, no comparison. Today our culture wants more and more things, cars, toys, etc. I remember very clearly how my father changed when he was able to work for the WPA; he had been a master printer. All his life and that of my family was a life of making do with as little as possible, the best things in life are free.
However, I do see help for this country if programs such as WPA and CCC could be put into effect. What it would take is a leader, a real inspired leader who is not afraid of government involvement in repairing and restorint the intra-structure of this country. Someone like F.D.R. but I don’t see anyone at this time coming even close. However, I’m always an optomist and you never know the potential people have.

]]> By: Linda Jones http://calitreview.com/392/comment-page-1#comment-11512 Linda Jones Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:52:21 +0000 http://calitreview.com/topics/economics/392/#comment-11512 Excellent Review - Nick Taylor's book is so timely - take a a snapshot of America today and it has a look of the 1930's in it The difference is it took a war to bring America out of the Depression and today we're in a recession because of our wars - In 2009 we have a great opportunity to be part of the next "New Deal" - American-Made should be required reading at the White House - Note - Elinor - please email me - Our company, Gilbert Art, will be doing a series of Art related charitable events to bring awareness of the WPA era - we're targeting schools, museums and retail venues so children and families can participate in the event - Linda Jones Excellent Review – Nick Taylor’s book is so timely – take a a snapshot of America today and it has a look of the 1930’s in it

The difference is it took a war to bring America out of the Depression and today we’re in a recession because of our wars -

In 2009 we have a great opportunity to be part of the next “New Deal” – American-Made should be required reading
at the White House -

Note – Elinor – please email me – Our company, Gilbert Art, will be doing a series of Art related charitable events to bring awareness of the WPA era – we’re targeting schools, museums and retail venues so children and families can participate in the event – Linda Jones

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