we need a new wpa. they are walking over the sidewalks, which is wpa. this was a demonstration outside of dianne feinstein's office. and demanding it not be torn down. the new deal moved in and gave rural areas water and electricity. this is one in modock county and we have cheaper electricity. and then, there were sustainable communities, people think they are discovering this at this time. this one was done in georgia. this is one in maryland green belt outside of washington d.c. this is right outside of the co-op. and then urban roads like this in the los angeles river and this is being built. this is mira loma park. this is lark merced blvd. it's all made of clay. it's going to slump. these are the roads built in the oakland hills. nate, red woods. skyline. and enabled them to go up and develop the hills. the rural roads that go through the coast range. this enabled them to get their stuff to market. this is at road built by the ccc. this is a bridge. this is highway one and you won't know, except you look at the bridge and you will see dates, 1938,

everything from monument to golden gate park to market street, other works in the collection, from the wpa the works from the george washington high school. we have the contemporary education, where they depict some of the vocational arts that were taught at george washington high school. what is interesting is the artist's and corp. of some of the -- incorporation of some of the architectural elements. they used the speaker from the p a system as part of the design. on the opposite side of the library, we have a large fresco which depicts the academic subjects that were taught at the time. it serves as a foil to the other fresco in the library, we have academic subjects on one side, vocational subjects on the other, and result is the concept of a well-rounded education. additionally, what we plan to do is the academy of hospitality and tourism will be part of, so the students can share with other students, faculty, the neighborhood, and others to come by and what to look to the artwork we have. >> by working with the students, we hope to raise awareness of the collection and foster stewar

he was the forerunner of the wpa and the prototype for it. this is a page from the cw a and it showed kids getting hot lunches. that was important. he put 2 million americans to work. and that included about 50 thousand school teachers sent out to rural areas. this is a cw a project. that's stern grove behind it. they are using wheel barrels. for this reason, many projects were well built. there are no cw a plot. this was one in berkeley placed there and the tennis court at coat niecis park. i was showing a montessory class there. this is an amphitheatre. it's a wonderful amphitheatre. there was from the sidewalks and they just reused it to create other things. down in menlow park. they built into a caretakers house. the wpa is must more famous. it came after the cw a. it did everything. they put eight and a half million people to work. they built roads. they sewed clothes. they built roads is in san francisco. this one, i have seen them on sidewalks in san francisco. this is on a retains wall in crocket. they are very seldom markers. cw a do

the lower walls was actually billed as part of the wpa. the upper wall was built in 1991-'92. this is a concrete wall and it has rocked going through the wall that extends the distance of 80 feet beyond the wall. the next earthquake occurs, the wall is designed to resist and the movement of the sand and allowed it to move down hill. this is a classic example of the creek and degree flow and exists all the way the area. we might see the other evidence. we have done nothing to improve the quality and the strength of the dam. >> one of the things that has come up in the policy issue over and over is that people are concerned that construction of a new building or the upper story might exacerbate these kinds of soil problems. we have extra review where we might have extra problems. it does that construction have an impact? it is a good idea to come to a peer review or a geotechnical review process as part of determining. >> in january of this year, the california building code requires almost all of san francisco that we get geologist and a geotechnical engineer. it was a state bu

this is a historical building, built in the 1930's as a result of the great depression, and it was a wpa project. in unfortunately fell into disrepair. with house animals that are victims of the illegal pet trade. in south america, it is a $10 billion industry, right up there with guns and drugs. i just want to show you some concepts for the interior. we will also take rescue perutz, a top restaurant in both north and south america. it will house various inhabitants of south america and the alien. and then an overview shot, we want to immerse the visitor in the south american forest. on the exterior, we will house the monkeys on the threatened list. we just brought them in from a research project. they were about to be euthanize, so we were able to rescue them. the origination of their exhibit is the yoke of a tree there. you see on their design, we will have an organic tree like exhibit for them. it is a concept for the xl area. in another area of the zoo, adjacent to the grisly gulch, we want to create a gateway to north america and house those animals at risk in north america, particu

well, during the fdr administration when the wpa programs and other work programs went into place, "shovel ready" meant you made a decision today and within a week or two you began working on a project. america has to get epa, osha., fish and wildlife, all these agencies to have to get to where you can decide to do something worthwhile, get through the process to make sure it's done right, and do it in a short period of time-- a year, not ten years. >> smith: the mandate it seems to me of especially the new republicans being sent to congress is to shrink the deficit, shrink government, save money. with oversight, how much money do you think you can save the taxpayers, say, over the next two years? >> i'm looking at about $200 billion. as the amount that we can either identify and eliminate the waste, or at least begin the process. i've give you one that's pretty easy. it's been in the papers. in the last days of last congress, they funded $500 million for a rocket program at nasa that's already been shut down. that can't be too hard to undo. but $500 million here, $500 million there-- that