> by enabling people in the working class to find genuine work that produces value, not some ditch-digging make-work government program
Like building out clean energy infrastructure?
Modern "ditch digging government programs" aren't necessarily low-skill. Even at the time, the new deal government programs were massively beneficial for society while also providing jobs for folks who needed it, at reasonable wages. Let's not shit on good government programs just because the right has been feeding us propaganda demonizing it for decades.