Naturally...

Yet again it appears that our powerful elites have been lecturing us, with their tedious and obvious disdain, while the facts show the pox is on their houses. Mark Perry powerfully illustrates.

UPDATE: Related. I second...pathetic.

UPPDATE: "Shovel ready", the Democrats catch-phrase for the mythical immediacy that they used to sell their stimulus package, had the comic ring because America seemed to know from the start what they were indeed shovelling. Now though, we have a new, distinctly perverse, comedic angle to the trillion dollar disaster that was the stimulus. I wonder what the Keynesian multiplier is for cutting checks to stiffs??