September 6, 2011 8:17AM 

# Olbermann Mocks Obama ‘Jobs’ Plan; Try Blenders, Not More School Spending 

By [Adam B. Schaeffer](https://www.cato.org/people/adam-b-schaeffer) 

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Information about President Obama’s forthcoming “jobs” plan is so disappointing that even Keith Olbermann is mocking him.

And the saddest part has to be more spending on school infrastructure. As I pointed out last week, per-student spending on facilities has increased [150 percent](../k-12-facilities-spending-up-150-percent-in-two-decades-%E2%80%93-apparently-not-enough-for-obama/) over the last two decades, even after adjusting for inflation. And Andrew Coulson explained how public schools can spend so much and still have infrastructure problems: [waste and incompetence](../why-more-money-hasnt-and-wont-fix-the-nations-public-school-buildings/).

But the president’s school construction plans are such a spectacularly sorry response to our Great Recession, Little Depression, malaise, what-have-you, that it deserves to be revisited with a pitch-perfect intro by Mr. Olbermann:

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