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Well, most road crews are increasingly comprised of illegals, so it should be rather obvious who those jobs are really for. I've worked road construction before, very uninteresting.
Government work programs exist only as a way to control the people away from revolution.
The government always afraid to give up control to its citizens, traps the unemployed into work arrangements which suppress their freedom to work without coercion.
When there is no government interference in the economy we chose our jobs by shopping our skills around to the best employer who meets our needs otherwise we say 'take this job and shove it'. It is a successful model where we trade our labour for coin in which we use to purchase whatever we choose.
The government however would take this freedom away by first wrecking the economy, by intervention, subsidizing, inflation and centralization.
The next step is forcing the unemployed to work and behave in accordance to their laws which are created solely for the purpose of providing the government with more income for junkets and trinkets.
Meanwhile we should cheer because occasionally they might give us some of our stolen earnings back. provided we behave, in the form of some social spending which always cost twice as much as we would have to spend if they only had left our wallets alone in the first place.