As an addendum to David Goldman’s column today about the publicly employed and the under-employed , I give you this graph :
Then again, David’s plan to put “less-educated workers” fixing roads and bridges might lead to more stuff like this :
A road contractor hired to paint the word “school” on a freshly paved stretch of road near Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina rendered the traffic area in question a “shcool” zone.
(Via: Outside the Beltway )
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