While the business orgs. in the US bitch about the Democrats wanting to raise the minumum wage, I've heard nothing from them about Bush and this costly plan of his:

The other sweetener will be a doubling of reconstruction efforts. Up to $1bn is to be spent on a programme in which Iraqis are employed to clean the streets and repair and paint schools.

The Pentagon-run scheme would try to draw young men away from insurgent groups and back into the mainstream economy. It would be administered by officials embedded in US combat brigades in a bid to persuade Iraqis that the Americans were there as a force for good and not just of occupation.

Seems the idiot, true to form, underestimates everyone elses' intelligence. He probably thinks they are all like him.

I had to dig a bit to find this news item. if you want to read the whole thing, CLICK HERE.