Rodeo, respectfully, if you really don't get it, it's because you don't want to. Have you never heard of the WPA?
Your "McDonalds" exchange is absurd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
"The WPA built 650,000 miles of roads, 78,000 bridges, 125,000 buildings, and seven hundred miles of airport runways... It presented 225,000 concerts to audiences totalling 150 million, and produced almost 475,000 works of art. Even today, almost sixty years after it ceased to exist, there is no part of America that does not bear some mark of the WPA."