We were all hopeful that the incoming Obama Administration would have taken a page from the WPA and initiated a "WPA21" version which would have put not only artists back to work, but devoted funding to building bullet trains, interurban streetcar systems, improved airports, seaports, levees, restoring the national parks system, upgrades to existing roads, water treatment facilities, etc.

This would have done more to put people back to work in the shortest length of time. Rethuglicans would have screamed bloody murder at the "socialist" agenda, but it would have set the nation on the right track.

We need to start caring for each others jobs, education, health, and indeed our collective futures.

Instead it looks like it's going to be business as usual.