Canada/U.S.A might now be a McJob nation, but if you listened to politicians, it's still a nation built of concrete and steel. Last night, for instance, when Obama (who actually, for all his talk of medical-record digitization, more vividly put forth images of train tracks and concrete bridges) talked of the unemployed, he made it seem as if they were all former factory workers, and we note that this article defends the unemployed by directing our attention to laid off mill workers, the oil patch, and Ontario factories -- not laid-off retail clerks, laid-off parents of children living in MacKenzie, Grandfalls, or Windsor, laid-off singles living in urbane abodes like downtown Toronto. So it probably is true that if politicians suggest that the laid-off, traditional values, old-style, working class/proletariat--people in car manufacturing (or who think they should be), for instance--are intrinsically lazy, they'll get in trouble for it. But if they target those working at McJo...