[Califreak]

Shovel ready projects.

Alternative energy.

Nuclear disaster.

We’re going to be Bartertown.

I might be overreacting.

[Tex Pete]

“One can imagine that every $1,000 spent on this enterprise will generate somewhere between $1 and $10 in terms of disposable income. It would be better to hand out money to gamblers in Las Vegas casinos.”

I think the “stimulus package” would have had a much better chance of success if we had just taken $1T to a roulette wheel.

[Tellurian]

The core politics of his program for America are designed to entrench the power and prestige of the educated classes

"The educated classes" isn't quite the right term ... there are plenty of educated people who will shun Obamunism as best they can. The educrats?

[SoldierDad]

The core politics of his program for America are designed to entrench the power and prestige of the educated classes, using the vague concept of collective rights of special interest groups as the foundation.

Socialism/communism in it's purest form.

[Tellurian]

The neo-mandarins? 0bamandarins?

[BobbyT]

Not education. Schooling, maybe.

But don’t call them “educated”. They’re pseudo-intellectuals producing nothing and mouthing the same tired phrases they learned to bleat while holding their hands out for the next government grant.