From Gene’s Notebook

The construction foreman tells me that he is supervising the clearing of a lot
that will be rented to store the heavy machinery that will work on Brownsville’s
drainage and sewage systems.

He says, almost spitting with anger, “It’s Obama’s stimulus.”

I tell him, “We’re 320 million people. We’re in it together. I like the
stimulus. We need more of it, not less.”

He’s unimpressed, but not unimpressed enough to return his paycheck.

Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky
January 26, 2009