USA Today featured our estimate that the porkulus bill, if it produced the number of jobs supporters claim, would likely created 300,000 construction jobs for illegal aliens, assuming the contractors aren’t required to use E-Verify to screen new hires (and the Dem leadership made sure they aren’t). The lefties responded with the usual stuff about flawed numbers, intolerance, blah, blah, blah. But one blogger at AlterNet was refreshingly candid:

Here’s the thing: I don’t care, and neither should you. Because the whole argument obscures the larger issue. Regardless of the merits of CIS’s “estimate,” there is no doubt that if we create a bunch of new jobs — especially in construction — unauthorized workers will get some of them. After all, they make up about 4-5 percent of the American workforce. And that’s fine, because stimulus spending is not just about creating jobs.
It’s about stimulating demand — “stimulus” — by putting dollars into working people’s pockets that they can go out and spend in the economy, and a worker’s legal status has nothing to do with the goods and services he or she purchases with those dollars.

Obviously, the only patriotic thing to do is to be happy that your taxes (or rather, your great-grandchildren’s taxes) are being used to create jobs for illegal aliens.