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Move over recovery summer, it's time for fabulous fall as President Obama ups the stimulus spending ante by $50 billion. Mr. Obama announced his generosity at Monday's Laborfest pep rally in Milwaukee, Wisc. An audience of union members cheered the plan, knowing the majority of this public cash infusion would be transferred into their own pockets. That's just the thing to energize labor in advance of November elections that look increasingly bleak for Democrats.

Mr. Obama promised the latest bundle of cash would be spent rebuilding roads, laying new rail lines and restoring runways.