It has not escaped the notice of the great unwashed and unruly that the stimulus plan was never meant to create jobs. As the housing industry collapsed, construction sector jobs began shedding like water. Meanwhile, due to government mismanagement of funds during the long bull market (a practical refutation of Keynesian economics if ever their was one), infrastructure had devolved into dangerous disrepair. Putting on our Keynesian hats for a moment, it made some sense that if we were going to spend untold billions of tax payer dollars we could quickly re-purpose construction workers to rebuild infrastructure in 'shovel ready'...