Reply #30: The CCC was social engineering to get unemployed kids off the streets [View All]

[Kolesar]

...and far away into the countryside. Otherwise, you know what happens. Massive unemployment, long hot summer, young men hanging around with nothing to do, crowds assemble, someone prys a few cobbles out of the street, rocks fly, windows break, police are called, the crowd prevails, rioting begins, civil order breaks down, governments are overturned, a new order is established...

We were close to chaos then. We were close in 1968, too. Cities all over America burned and there were hundreds of bombings in those years. There were two summers of rioting in Cincinnati in the last few years, too.