Well, I see that is not a problem limited to the area where I live.

My asstate has created jobs (not really but let's pretend they did) by widening roads that have a traffic pattern of a couple hundred cars a day going by.  Yessir, a couple hundred but now, they're gonna do it in style:  sidewalks, turning lanes, double lanes...the cadillac of road work.  If that weren't enough, they have carved into hills on the side of the road (of course, taking land from the owners in the process) leaving only half of these clay hills standing.  I just can't wait till we have a down pour and all that shitty clay comes tumbling down and covers the entire fancy road!  Ha ha!  Of course, that will create more jobs for Cousin Vinny (the Governor's wife's second cousin) who's in the business of road cleaning, cement shoes and even some freelance gravedigging on the side. 

In the meantime, people are losing jobs faster than they can walk to the unemployment line, houses and foreclosing by the scores and business are going bankrupt by the minute.  The homeless population has doubled or tripled and the food banks have run out of food but Cousin Vinny has a job! 

I tell ya - life is good in these here United States of Ass!