During the Great Depression, there was major social unrest in almost every city in the United States. Many of the unemployed were attracted to socialism/communism (we nearly elected a socialist governor here in California). Many other Americans were attracted to fascism, anti-Semitism, and Father Coughlin.
One of the reasons why the federal government in the 1930s created the Civilian Conservation Corp was to ship all of the angry young men (like this jerk in the video) out of cities and to rural areas to build parks, dams, aqueducts, infrastructure, etc. In areas where unofficial unemployment figures are over 20%, these programs ought to be resurrected. Why should corporations get all the welfare money?
