I’m listening to the evening news on my last night in LA, after the announcement that the state unemployment is in double digits, hearing the RINO Governator talking about how “creating jobs is his highest priority.”
Well, ignoring the issue of “creating jobs” (which can be done by simply handing out money stolen from the taxpayers or borrowed from future taxpayers to pay people to do various things of various and dubious value, often negative) as opposed to creating wealth and not making war on prosperity, here’s an idea, Arnie.
How about doing an analysis of previous California policy to figure out why the jobs were destroyed, and stop doing and start undoing those things? Or is that too hard?
If you think that’s depressing, check this out:
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k13943&pageid=icb.page242685
HT: Protein Wisdom
Either the center right recaptures academia soon or things are going to get much uglier.
Not hard. Heretical. In California, statism is the unofficial state religion.
It’s like dieting. Easy to know, hard to do.
Or how about assuming the rest of us know well enough how to start businesses, hire people, find jobs, et cetera et cetera — i.e. we’re all grown up and can “run” our “economy” just fine without any damn meddling at all from Sacramento.
Geez, the infantilization here is staggering. Like, you know, we wouldn’t know which end to put the food in and which end to wipe unless the Legislature solemnly sets out clear and detailed instructions.
We need a government only to do the things it’s impossible for us to do ourselves. “Creating jobs” doesn’t qualify. Fixing I-5 or the Bay Bridge, trying and locking up murderers and fraudsters, and checking cars at the border for Med fly: those are reasonable jobs for the clods in Sacramento, stuff they could actually maybe get done.
As part of Arnold’s job creation program, he’s telling silicon fabs to leave the state.
If your only goal is to lose weight, there are all sorts of things you can do, such as use heroin, cocain, or crystal meth. Smoking also works. Those things will help you lose weight but are terrible for your health.
Likewise, if a government’s only goal is to “create jobs”, there are all sorts of things they can do. They could reinvent the CCC and hire people to dig holes and then refill them. They could outlaw labor saving devices like backhoes and make construction firms hire manual laborers (ditch diggers) to do the work. These things would create jobs all right but would be terrible for our economic health.
I miss NOT having ONE of the JIMs commenting on THIS thread. (Hey guys, how do you like my use of the Ramsey Notation?)
All of YOU troglodytes (Can I even say that? Making a reference to a chimp is a racist slur unless it was in reference to a president who . . . Never mind!).
ANYWAY, if IT were NOT for government, none of YOU Libertarian types WOULD have jobs AT all. IT is the proper ROLE for government TO guarantee everyone A job, AND if you disagree WITH me, you are all part OF the vast right-wing conspiracy, the RNC, the neo-conservative cabal, Rod Blagojevic’s legal team, Karl Rove, Pervez Musharraf, Stephen Harper, and the writing team for that McDonalds Filet-O-Fish commercial..
IT is the proper ROLE for government TO guarantee everyone A job, AND if you disagree WITH me, you are all part OF the vast right-wing conspiracy, the RNC, the neo-conservative cabal, Rod Blagojevic’s legal team, Karl Rove, Pervez Musharraf, Stephen Harper, and the writing team for that McDonalds Filet-O-Fish commercial..
Nope, you missed it completely. From the Leftist point of view, the government is supposed to quarantee everyone lives a comfortable life regardless of whether they have a job or not. If someone actually does have a job, he’s a winner of life’s lottery and must pay taxes to support those who can’t or won’t work. All animals are equal, as Orwell wrote, only some are more equal than others.