Maybe We Should All Work For the Guvernmint

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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