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Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has a humdinger of a column on how union rackeeters including the Turnpike's plutocops are "busting out" the Massachusetts Turnpike and its transit equivalent the MBTA having looted them for years. Busting out is Mob talk for destroying and abandoning the business once it has been so thoroughly looted it has nothing left to steal.

President-elect Obama is talking about creating millions of jobs making public buildings more efficient, funding 'infrastructure' and modernizing schools. Hopefully most of it will go on weatherstripping the doors and windows of government offices and fluorescent light bulbs in schools, because the promise of vast federal spending on roads will stop toll financing dead.