AdamT
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The main problem with those government jobs doing infrastructure work is that they always get handed out to no-bid union contractors with political connections, at least here in Chicago that's how it works. The guys at the top make insane amounts because there's no competition, while the workers take on all the risk. Sure they'd get a lot of the unemployed union guys out working, but since they'd be going to outfits that have been clipping along on similar jobs anyway, it won't be as many people as you would think.
You certainly know more about it than I do, but if those guys are already fully staffed, and all this new work comes up ... doesn't that mean they'd have to hire a bunch of new workers to fill the contracts? Wouldn't that pull people out of the residential market and thus reduce competition and allow rates to go up?