Obama's public works "stimulus package" is a huge slab of pork. It assures that plenty of federal funds will be available to state union workers for funding projects that are outside the federal government's sphere of responsibility. "We need to create jobs to help the middle class," he says. "We will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s," Already, governors and special interest greenfreaks are lining up with their hands out.
