Roads To Nowhere

摘要

With the economy in recession and unemployment quickly rising, America's elected leader prepares to put hundreds of thousands of people to work on infrastructure projects. Visiting the site of a new road, he sums up his agenda in three words: "Jobs, jobs, jobs".rnBarack Obama in 2008? No, that was George Bush senior in 1991 Politicians have long seen public works as a solution to economic woes. But few presidents have been as keen to spend as Mr Obama, or as pressured. America's mayors have their wish list of projects, which cost about $73 billion. State governors are pushing for $136 billion-worth of projects.