Shovel ready in California

Two different historians discover the same result, government is completely ineffective at the moment. It is 30 years of rule making resulting in an encyclopedia of rules before one can put shovel to ground.

But it was not always so. A hundred years ago, the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project here in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains of California was the nation's first large effort to generate electricity from falling water -- to provide electric power for a growing Los Angeles nearly 250 miles away.

Industrialist and entrepreneur Henry Huntington conceived the gargantuan effort, begun in 1911. In just 157 days, a supply railroad up the mountains was built with picks, shovels and horse-drawn scrapers by thousands of workers struggling at over 6,000 feet in elevation.

In just two years, electricity was flowing southward from a new powerhouse generating unit at Big Creek that harnessed San Joaquin River water released from the new Huntington Lake reservoir. Victor Hanson

Another:

Henry J. Kaiser, who once built ships in both Portland and Vancouver, would be spinning in his grave in frustration if he knew about this comedy of fools. As the Antiplanner noted once before, Kaiser once responded to a proposal to do a study to build a four-lane road to a housing development he was building by building the road for less than the cost of the study and finishing it before the study would have been done. Anti-planner

Getting the idea?
We will not see high government multipliers until the current system completes its bankruptcy.