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“Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: "You don't understand. This is a jobs program."]”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/770818-oh-i-thought-you-were-trying-to-build-a-canal
Thank you. Just the type of quip one needs.