Learn about the Hoover Dam

[Locutus]

from Rachel Madcow:

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow: The Hoover Dam - YouTube

 

[hunboldt]

from Rachel Madcow:

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow: The Hoover Dam - YouTube

Interesting!
Hoover gets a 'bad rap'.\
No one at time knew how to properly apply Keyesian principles to boost an economy out of the depression. His construction projects got the rebound rolling

 

[petros]

Too bad Action Plan Man can't cram Eminent Domain down people's throats like they once could.

 

[Locutus]

Ed Driscoll » Voyage of the Dammed

...the only parts Maddow got right were the points she didn’t intend to make.

The concept that Hoover Dam was not actually built by the federal government, but was ultimately built by private companies, seemed so contrary to our usual narratives that I went and looked it up:


http://www.bechtel.com/BAC-Chapter-1.html

 

[hunboldt]

Ed Driscoll » Voyage of the Dammed

...the only parts Maddow got right were the points she didn’t intend to make.

The concept that Hoover Dam was not actually built by the federal government, but was ultimately built by private companies, seemed so contrary to our usual narratives that I went and looked it up:


http://www.bechtel.com/BAC-Chapter-1.html

The Hoover dam was built by six companies that beleived in 'leavign somethign on the table' for everyone. Today, each company would have a fleet of lawyers trying to screw each other, and the project would 'gum up'.
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I date the decline of of America from 1973- the first year you graduated more lawyers than engineers.

 

[Highball]

She went diving behind the Dam and stayed down too long. The oxygen deprivation affected what she had for rationale thinking. This is just one time she has shown that to us.