Boppy pillows for breastfeeding mothers and Blackberries to keep in touch with the world have little in common.

     Yet the vendors of both products need more Americans to work for them. Maybe we need a WPA or CCC, two New Deal programs the Obama lot are not even thinking of copying, which put people to work in the 1930s, to create new jobs 80 years later.

     This is a suggestion of a friend, IF, an 80-something-year-old life-time Liberal Democrat; she even lives on Manhattan's West Side. I live in the Silk Stocking district by the East River, mainly Liberal Republican. But IF has a point.