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Who really thinks that "creating" even MORE government jobs for sub-par workers will somehow help the economy?

Government jobs don't come free do they? Who pays for them? When the government sector grows then what must shrink?

Public Comments

1. I think you're just jealous that you don't qualify for a government job.
2. better than doing nothing
3. Only people trying to make Hussein feel good
4. did you get that paper done yet?
5. The Government Employees UNION
6. Its better than watching them all go overseas.
7. You must be employed. The world seems so different when you have a job doesn't it. Mr. News
8. The thing is that the private sector is already shrinking. Thus the need for more jobs from somewhere.
9. Remembering learning about the New Deal about the CCC? That helped out with the Great Depression now didn't it?
10. It will be our pocketbooks that "shrink"; as always.
11. it might work better than the Bush method of losing a half a million plus jobs every month....
12. Let's see losing 2 million jobs in a year and with that the loss of the salaries effecting the economy plus the loss of health benefits versus creating jobs, putting people to work, creating an influx of consumer dollars into the economy. Sounds like a good start at least.
13. The private sector pays for it. Studies have shown that government spending increases the GDP by about $1.40 for every $1 spent. On the other hand, a tax cut increases the GDP by about $3 for every $1 cut. I can pay my neighbor $100 to dig a hole in my back yard, and then to fill it in. He can pay me to do the same. The GDP will register an increase of $200, but neither of us will be better off. The name of the game is economic efficiency, and the sooner the politicians (and by extension, the populace that elects them and demands that they "do something" to help the economy) learn this, the more prosperous we will be. Edit: Based on the answers above, it seems as we are in for a long wait for an educated populace.
14. I wouldn't call the unemployed ( at lest not the ones in the current economy) sub-par workers but, I would suggest that adding to the current bureaucracy to the tune of several million is a step towards socialism and an even bigger leap towards price control.
15. The same people that paid for the iraq war. At least this way we get something for our cash other then 4,000 dead Americans and a world that hates us.
16. America needs to work. America needs jobs. And I'd have to say that using the characterization of unemployed Americans as "sub-par workers" would be simply inaccurate. America lost 1.9 MILLION JOBS SINCE SEPTEMBER. Do you understand that? That's a lot of people out of work. MILLIONS of people are out of work. Through absolutely, positively NO fault of their own. I personally know people with degrees (notice that's a PLURAL) hanging on their wall who are out of a job today. by the way - it's a fine time to be yelping about "government jobs" when we've just completed eight years of the fastest-growing, biggest FEDERAL GOVERNMENT of any previous administration. EVER.