If you can’t even fool the AP. . .

WASHINGTON – Counties suffering the most from job losses stand to receive the least help from President Barack Obama’s plan to spend billions of stimulus dollars on roads and bridges, an Associated Press analysis has found.
Although the intent of the money is to put people back to work, AP’s review of more than 5,500 planned transportation projects nationwide reveals that states are planning to spend the stimulus in communities where jobless rates are already lower.
One result among many: Elk County, Pa., isn’t receiving any road money despite its 13.8 percent unemployment rate. Yet the military and college community of Riley County, Kan., with its 3.4 percent unemployment, will benefit from about $56 million to build a highway, improve an intersection and restore a historic farmhouse.
Altogether, the government is set to spend 50 percent more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than it will in communities with the highest.

Ray LaHood, token Republican in the Obama cabinet, says not to worry:

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood defended the plan. Even if needy areas don’t see transportation projects, workers can compete for jobs elsewhere, even if they are in more prosperous areas, he said. In many counties, particularly rural ones, that means a drive of two hours.
“People from all over the region are going to be working in those jobs,” LaHood said Monday. “When it’s all said and done, you’re going to see an enormous number of people working on these projects this summer.”

Four-hour commutes for stimulus jobs? I doubt it.