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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
If it were not for the federal water projects; Las Vegas would still be a dessert and with the exception of an isolated desert hermit, a few cacti, rattlesnakes, and some gila monsters -- uninhabited. |
LOL. Las Vegas was already inhabited long before the Hoover Dam.
But yes...Lake Meade is the only way it could have a couple of million people living out here now. But Las Vegas is the site of underground springs (which come to the surface here) and was an oasis long before it was a city.
And as I already pointed out...it was The Great Depression. Pres. Coolidge needed to get people back to work. So, they paid a private company to build the Hoover dam. That private company hired the thousands of people and did the work. Not the govt. But yes, the govt. funded it.
AND...as I pointed out already...that was back in the early 1900's. Fast forward to 2012...and our bullshit govt. CAN'T do anything like the Hoover Dam today. Matter of fact, IF they tried to build the Hoover Dam today: It would be voted down by Congress and banned by the E.P.A. (environmental protection agency).
That's what happened to the Keystone Pipeline. Thousands of jobs and billions of dollars into the economy lost because the Federal govt. has regulated everything to the point that nothing can be done.