Shovel Ready?

Have you read some of the "shovel ready" projects being requested for the infrastructure spending spree planned by the incoming Democratic Congress and President?

I can't recall all of the nonsense, but these do come to mind:

-a community swimming pool in, I believe, Kansas.
-a Santa Barbara service program to discourage prostitution
-a museum of/for children
-a Texas ice-skating rink

There were others of similar inappropriate nature. The point, of course, is that none of these has any relationship to the sort of infrastructure originally promised to be upgraded for the nation's economic welfare and productivity.

Mind you, we haven't even mentioned the graft and corruption you know will occur for union-related spending for the real road-and-bridge infrastructure projects.

If this is how it starts, before the bill is even passed, imagine how dreadful a waste of money, resources and time this will be before the entire effort is judged in a post-mortem some years from now.