Some quick searching showed there are about 10,000 gas station attendant jobs in NJ. So we could take 5,000 of them and have them dig holes all day. And the ot

Some quick searching showed there are about 10,000 gas station attendant jobs in NJ. So we could take 5,000 of them and have them dig holes all day. And the other 5,000 could fill in the holes on the following days. That's about as productive. Or, if we're viewing it purely as a jobs program, find meaningful work, even if it was just patrolling the town they would have pumped gas in & instead picking up any and every piece of litter and garbage they see, documenting potholes they see in the road or loose branches around power lines for the town's DPW to deal with proactively.