Keynesian Economics and Recession Counter-Measures

You say "jump" I say "let me get my track sneakers:" Probably the only "jumpable" part of this statement is that what you've described isn't "socialism."

Oh, don't get me wrong. 100% agree.Though I sort of wonder if maybe we get a little more road for our money if we just pay construction companies to build them, instead of the government getting into the construction business itself. I mean, there's a lot of unused construction capacity out there ever since the collapse of the housing market, why not put it to work? That would be incredibly stimulative.We can even insist on small local businesses, if you want, though a giant public works program is necessarily going to make a lot of local small businesses big.