What we could have done

Up on the mountain yesterday two old men spent hours repairing steps on a trail.  Now what if that $1,200 everyone is going to get was used to pay people to work on projects like this.  If you paid someone one hundred dollars an hour to help us they could have worked for twelve hours.  What happened to common sense? Back in the old days when they had to get cash to trickle they did public works. Why not now?  Why not pay people to do something useful?