from ace reporter Lee Stranahan at a San Francisco Starbucks
Those 2.5 million jobs Obama wants to create - that's going to be a lot of infrastructure jobs. And I'll be honest, my first thought is a bunch of dudes and the occasional dudette sweating by the side of the road with the smell of hot tar perfuming the air. And God bless 'em, that's not a gig I'd want. Like the late great Mitch Hedberg said. "I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day. " I know there are a few engineers who design the bridges but a nation of manual labor doesn't exactly inspire me.
Then I remember it wasn't all a f-cking dream and that Barack Obama was elected. And then I remember that infrastructure can mean things like a new power grid and green energy and digital networks and nationwide wifi in the new spectrum that the FCC opened up and high end rail and technology and science and stuff. It's nice to feel all future-y about the future again.