Update to previous post: $8B to be added to highway trust fund

I spoke of the budget shortfall in this post.

Crooks and Liars has an update on the situation, originally from Yahoo news, that an $8 billion federal injection will be made into the fund.  Yahoo reports that should these funds not be sent to the fund, 379,000 jobs would be at risk.  I am glad to see America’s infrastructure receiving some sort of attention, but it seems fairly obvious to me that 379,000 jobs being lost in an election year would be far less desirable than further deficit spending.  This outcome does not surprise me in the last.

… and the cow goes moo.