This what spending $80 million worth of members dues to elect Dem candidates during the midterm elections buys you.

(The Hill)– Working Americans are waiting on President Obama to lay out a bold plan for investing in jobs and infrastructure, a top labor leader will warn Wednesday.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is set to lay down a marker for the Obama administration ahead of next week’s State of the Union address by urging the president to lean on expansive spending initiatives to fuel the economic recovery.

“Next week the president of the United States will give his State of the Union address,” Trumka will say at a speech at the National Press Club, according to prepared remarks. “The labor movement is ready for a call to action, a call to invest in our future, to create jobs, to be the country we can and must be.”

The AFL-CIO leader’s been a consistent voice for more spending, a request that had been frustrated over the past two years by Republican opposition in Congress. Now that the GOP controls the House, getting approval for more spending will become even more difficult.

“When we are reduced to competing to cut spending instead of deciding how to compete in the world economy and secure our future, then we are having the wrong conversation,” Trumka will say.