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To: RoosterRedux
They believe the government can create jobs and that's the BIG lie.

Well, I think it's important we speak correctly. Government can, of course, create jobs. Simply hire a few thousand workers to do something, and pay them from the general fund. But it takes the free market to create value, create worth, that creates jobs that pay taxes into the general fund. If the government REALLY wanted to help, they'd open up factories to create products. Or farm. But then they'd be competing against the free market, and violating their charter.

22 posted on 11/18/2012 6:08:03 AM PST by Big Giant Head
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To: Big Giant Head
In a free market economy, a job is a self-supporting endeavor. That is, a worker creates more value than he draws out in pay (he not only creates sufficient value to cover his pay, but contributes to the organization of which he is part).

In a government job, his pay comes from an entirely separate source...the taxpayer. Without the taxpayer (i.e. a person who works in a free market economic endeavor), there is no government job.

34 posted on 11/18/2012 6:31:08 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Bill Clinton just signed Paula Broadwell to write his bio...and Jill Kelley as his social liaison.)
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