[Cincinatus' Wife]

Did you catch Rush yesterday?

He was relating Paul Krugman’s verbal diarrhea of, “digging holes and filling them up again” as an example of productive work. And another way to kick-start our economic engine and spur the U.S. economy? Krugman says the ticket is “Invading space aliens.”

These people are dangerous fools.

[PGalt]

These people are dangerous fools.

Yes, they are. I missed Rush yesterday (work). HOORAY Rush!

[FreedomPoster]

I am strongly in favor of Krugman being abducted by “Invading space aliens.”

>>These people are dangerous fools.

You are far too kind.

[tomkat]

These people are dangerous fools  INSANE !

[ctdonath2]

Just posted this elsewhere:

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He's focused on creating jobs for the American people.

Occurred to me we've bought into another instance of the Left framing the issue:

Creating jobs is easy, especially by government: just take money from one person and give it to another under arbitrary "work" conditions.

We don't need jobs per se. Those are easy to create, but go nowhere as the government's solution is just move that money from one person to another as fast as possible - that doesn't do anyone any good. Example:

• You have $10 and a jar of peanut butter.
• I have no money and no food.
• There are no "jobs" in this situation.
• The government confiscates $5 from you.
• The government offers me a "job": move a pile of dirt from point A to point B (for which there is, of course, no point except to "create a job").
• As payment, the government gives me $5.
• I give you $5 to buy your peanut butter - "creating a job" for you.
• I eat the peanut butter.
• Two "jobs" were "created".
• Now you have $10, I have none, and there is no peanut butter.

In this case, "creating jobs" didn't do any good. Sure, I got to eat, but you didn't, and now there's nothing to eat.

We need wealth-creating jobs. And we need to harp on the prefix.

Example:

• You have $10 and a jar of peanut butter.
• You spend $1 to buy raw peanuts.
• You pay me $4 to plant, cultivate, and harvest peanuts.
• During that time, I buy your peanut butter for $4 to get me thru.
• I make 10 jars of peanut butter.
• In payment, you give me 1 jar of peanut butter and $1 worth of raw peanuts.

Now I have enough to live on peanuts (literally) indefinitely, AND you have enough to repeat the operation and build a peanut empire.

Any time the Left says anything about the government "creating jobs", we MUST retort with "make-work jobs do nothing if they don't CREATE WEALTH - what is the government going to do to create WEALTH-CREATING jobs?"

Need to distil this to a better soundbite.