let make something now!

From: Mark Linafelter

"If we really want to get people to except and WANT to be all for exploring and
developing space we must sell them on the one thing that is in short supply on
Earth right now. And that are JOBS!!!! And lots of them. Jobs that can have a
long term future. Building colonies and such will take a lot of people. And with
the economies in a major mess and employment in short supply, it maybe time to
do something much like the W.P.A. of the 1930's."

Theimmediatebeneficiaries would be college educated workers (engineers,
scientists and so on). They do not have a high unemployment rate.

To give a gross simplication: Thepeople suffering with the highest unemployment
are those withless education ornot in technical professions.

If the goal is tosell this as agovernment jobs program, it would not have
broad appeal. There are other terrestrial activitieswithbroader
employmentopportunities. And those activities would have more short term
results.