makework

In terms of the "makework" side of things .. (the painting fences and picking up litter) if the JOB was worth doing, it would be done commercially.

Army Rumour Service 2010

In terms of the "makework" side of things .. (the painting fences and picking up litter) if the JOB was worth doing, it would be done commercially.

Army Rumour Service 2010

February 18th, 2009 at 11: 53 am are taxpayers creating makework jobs to prevent the rust belt from becoming the new dust bowl, or are we trying to provide assistance to our “national champion” firms and help them compete?

Matthew Yglesias » Detroit Wants $14 Billion More 2009

Watch Obama use the stimulus one and stimulus twocoming soon to a A-CRONY office near you to create all these temporary government “makework” type jobs to artificially boost employment at election time.

Common_Cents’s blog - RedState 2010

The pronomian seeks to restore the nomos, whose outlines are clear under the mountain of byzantine procedure, wholesale makework and vote-buying, criminal miseducation, and other horrors of the liberal-democratic state.

The present state of affairs is unsatisfactory « Isegoria 2008

It worked, and she was getting better at it, but it was makework, and she couldn't wait to get back to the garden, with its open spaces.

I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

However, I think the multitasker vitally needs to plan when using this strategy, or she will get lost in makework.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Patience 2009

Or look at Roosevelt II's policies during the Depression -- massive stimulative spending and makework jobs programs practically every of a decade-long depression countering, of course, with increased tax rates to suck all the money back out again.

There's an awful lot of instinctive revulsion toward Bobby Jindal. Ann Althouse 2009

She missed the critical point between a real job and a makework job.

Why not put people to work by paying them to water their own lawns? Ann Althouse 2009

Probably they did all that makework for fun or to keep busy, since they had no jobs.

A Nation of Deadbeats? 2009