Jack Layton Calls on me to do the Right Thing

Good old Jack Layton mailed out one of his brochures recently. In it he called for an economic stimulus package. With the expected criticism of Stephen Harper he touted "green infrastructure", (what's that, a bridge made of flowers?), and explained, "a billion dollars invested in infrastructure creates twice as many jobs as a billion spent on Harper-style tax cuts...and injects $2 billion into the broader economy," (What's "the broader economy"?)
Jack, of course, is fighting for the spending of our money on a wiser, cleaner economic stimulus package. Jack Layton preaching on economics.
Dear Jack, please rethink your hatred of tax cuts. A tax cut effectively gives the tax payer the direct power to implement his/her own economic stimulus package without employing the wasteful middleman of government. Just for once, can you please trust us to spend our own money properly!
After all, if you and your fellow travelers hadn't blown our taxes on boondoggles and crony-boosting, and spent it on infrastructure, (as your job required you to do), infrastructure investment wouldn't sound so attractive.
Seven of these brochures were in my mailbox, delivered by Canada Post. Seven. Green Infrastructure?