These jerks are “fighting the last depression”. In the 1930’s public works meant a huge number of unskilled men with actual shovels building things.
Today, a massive engineering study, followed by an “environmental impact” study, and evaluation by countless local bureaucratic planning agencies, and endless lawsuits eventually (years later) results in work for a small number of unionized heavy equipment operators.
Here’s a “public works” idea. Get the World Trade Center area rebuilt. Now.
The communist Democrats' collective mindset has been thoroughly stuck in 1930's Depression Era thinking for 50 years. They consider the FDR years of socialist federal programs their glory days. They yearn to do those same things over again. The communist Democrats want to (and will) create an economic depression in order to impose their totalitarian socialist agenda on America. The Democrats want soup lines and bleak Depression Era conditions all across America. That's where they want the American middle class to be -- poor and beaten down.
I also believe the economic trouble of 2008 near the end of Bush's term was completely planned and instigated by them in cahoots with corrupt Wall Street financiers who hoped to get paid off by the Democrats for their cooperation in the scheme. This was their initial attempt at establishing Depression Era economic state in America. The Democrats are still at it today.