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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Those that don't.....
	Date:	1/6/2009 8:28:45 PM

As for the 600,000 new government jobs, Obama himself has said his economic recovery plan will create 3,000,000 new jobs of which 80% will be in the private sector. Y'all do the math.

I never said that all government employees fed at the government trough although it is absolutely certain that the size of the federal government is too large, not too small. Adding another 600,000 to the federal payroll only makes a bad situation worse because not one of those new federal employees will create anything of value. And the money to pay them will come from the taxpayer who actually creates real value, jobs, etc.

Now the economically illiterate might say that giving these 600,000 people a government job will give them money to spend and therefore stimulate the economy. The flaw in this thinking is the source of the money to pay them comes from the very same people who run businesses that do more than just create a paying position. So for every dollar the government job adds to the economy is done at the expense of every dollar available to private citizens. Nothing is added, only transferred from the productive to the unproductive. The productive manufacture products that can be sold, they provide a service to customers that allow them to create jobs (b2b), etc. All government jobs do is transfer money from productive taxpayers and pay it to bureacrats that make our lives more complicated and inefficient.

Anyone who thinks more government jobs is the answer to our economic ills is an economic illiterate.