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Jobs Versus Net Jobs

Anonymous13133 Wrote: Jul 11, 2012 8:09 AM

Who does the taxation come from in the first place? Based on your logic, we should all work for the Government, and then everything will be rainbows and unicorns. Government workers make MORE than their private sector counterparts, with better health and retirement plans and private industry because there is no downward counterbalance on excesses and waste. You are trying to use the 'broken window' fallacy to somehow prove it is better to let the wiser and more efficient Government distribute OUR money as they see fit. Unfortunately, Government is NEVER wiser or more efficient than each individual person participating in the free market.

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Jobs Versus Net Jobs

One of the reasons for the popularity of political rhetoric is that everybody can be right, in terms of their own rhetoric, no matter how much the rhetoric of one side contradicts the rhetoric of the other side.

President Obama constantly repeats how many millions of jobs have been created during his administration, while his critics constantly repeat how many millions of jobs have been lost during his administration. How can both of them be right -- or, at least, how can they both get away with what they are saying?

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