[telescope115]

Here in Northern Illinois the roads need to be constantly patched or torn up and rebuilt. I guess the Romans didn’t have to deal with constant jobs programs for labor unions.

[Alas Babylon!]

No, they used bread and circuses!

[rlmorel]

Hahahaha, made me think of this:

I used to take a highway into work, and it seemed like it was under construction for about ten years straight (I think it may have been 4-8 years, realistically) but I would get really aggravated like Michael Douglas in that movie "Falling Down" and rail that it had to be a jobs program, not something to actually fix anything!