MSNBC is promoting Big Government, and Rachel Maddow jumped on board. In her 30 second clip, Maddow boasts the glories of public works projects like the Hoover Dam. This leads me to believe that Maddow chose to promote something about which she doesn't know a damn thing.... That, or her values are waaaay off base from what she otherwise promotes.
"You can't be the guy who builds this. You can't be the town who builds this. You can't even be the state who builds this. You have to be the country who builds something like this. This is a national project."
Yeah. Well, ahem, tell that to Frank Crowe, the Hoover Dam chief engineer -- without whom the project would never have been completed. Hell, without the water-cooling pipes in the concrete, the concrete would still not be fully hardened today. Also, did you know that people died during the construction of the Hoover Dam? And attempts to unionize the workers were stamped out? Funny how Maddow just glosses over that part. (OR, could it be that she wants new public works projects to literally mimic the Hoover Dam?)
