[andyk]

When did it become universally accepted that the purpose of government is to create jobs?

[silverleaf]

When did it become universally accepted that the purpose of government is to create jobs?

when govt was discovered to have the power to destroy job creation initiative and ambition among its citizens, with ruinous tax policies, laws and regulations

and when govt discovered it could use taxation and regulation powers to choose economic winners and losers and enrich Congress (ergo nancy pelosi and harry reid) and to use armies of lobbyists (many employing spouses family members and former Congressmen themselves) to amass political donations from Wall Street, sufficient to keep the enforcers in power