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...bridges to nowhere.
If government is capable of acting like a wise consumer of infrastructure or anything else, it's been very successful at hiding the fact in the past. Don't be surprised when government spends the money on the public equivalent of flat-panel HDTVs. 435 representatives, 100 senators, and powerful private interests, most certainly including business executives and union leaders, will be in the mob charging into the big store to consume, consume, consume.
It will be interesting to see whether Obama reprises the role originated by Jdimytai Damour in his off-off-Broadway debut.
