We're not in a great depression. I'm not against make-work per se, but we are currently in an era where we need to improve public sector administrative capacit

We're not in a great depression. I'm not against make-work per se, but we are currently in an era where we need to improve public sector administrative capacity. It's really hard to do that while saddling agencies with make-work, because the latter is so bad for esprite de corps. It would better to e.g. expand peace corps / Americorps. And if they want to staff do-nothings on subways, they can, but it needs not involve the MTA.