Fast and easy ego boost.

I think that’s the appeal.

/hyperbole off

I agree, Frank! Let’s disband the armed forces!

Is Jay sending you wittle e-mail with your marching orders for today? Cuz you’re doing it wrong.

When a government decides to incentivize the purchase of “goods” or buy them for their own use, they are doing so to seed the market, not to become the market. This was the path for such products as solar cells, super computers, embedded systems / mini-computers, hydro-electric dams, most lasers and thus all opto-electric devices, most energy efficiency products and on and on and on.

We have an opportunity with this stimulus package to make the cost of many, many things more affordable: electric vehicles, high-speed rail, nuclear facilities, LED lighting, bio-fuel refineries, utility-scale solar, distributed building automation. Useful stuff.

As they get diffused into the government market, their price will come down and they will be more available to the commercial market resulting in a flourishing of new jobs in everything from manufacture to construction to services. This isn’t the only way to create growth. The private sector usually can handle this on its own, but our private sector is basically broken. In such times, government spending is the only lever left.

Republican economics, ladies and gents!

So you’re calling construction workers lazy bums? Why do you hate blue collar America so much?

You’re all very amusing, but way back a long time ago – yesterday – you were pretending not to understand Michael Steele. Now you are pretending not to understand me.

Oh, I understand you completely. You’re saying that work on a single project isn’t real work. Now, never having have worked a day in your long long life, I can understand your confusion, but almost all work (except retail) works on a project-by-project basis. Nobody works on a single project for their entire career. What I don’t understand is how anyone could be a stupid as you.

Looks like poor Frankie’s finally gone senile. It’s like they say, the mind’s the first thing to go.

I had a book published and worked as an editor for several magazines. Sometimes I would get poorly written gibberish about an interesting subject and turn it into a readable article, but there’s a limit to extracting signal when the noise overwhelms it, and you have far exceeded that limit.

I don’t think even you know what the heck you are talking about, but it’s certain that no one else does.

I could be wrong. Perhaps you are an unrecognized genius, and the only reason the world hasn’t heard from you yet is because your only means of expressing your unique and narrowly focused genius is by posting on Oliver’s blog. If so, that means that the reason we don’t understand you is that the entire rest of humanity has not yet caught up with your amazing intellect, but I wouldn’t bet the rent on that.

When I want to know how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, I’ll call you guys. You’re all very amusing, but way back a long time ago – yesterday – you were pretending not to understand Michael Steele. Now you are pretending not to understand me.

So the score stands at “readers of English” – one.

Comedian wannabes – infinite.

calling all toasters says: “Because it’s slightly more entertaining than trying to outwit paint.”

And the other option is actually doing work.

Hell no.

And my contract? You are not going to deal with that?

“b) If you have a contract, that is not the same as a “make work” Project to build a library or a highway, or a museum dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt.”

Bridges, roads, and yes, even museums have a life expectancy. New bridges, new roads, and new buildings will always need to be built. Always.

Since you don’t get that, there’s little to say except…

“Shut the fuck up.”