Wild-eyed radical thought
Feb. 14th, 2010 09:06 amWe have high unemployment, and the current administration wants to create more jobs, which strikes me as a good thing.
Private business clearly doesn't see any short term benefit to itself in doing this, and doesn't want to take the risk. I understand that.
So, instead of trying to create more jobs by making the tax code more complicated, wouldn't it make more sense for the government to create more jobs by, you know, creating more jobs? By hiring people? To work? For the government?
Maybe they could do things like clean the snow off the streets (and while they're at it, fix the potholes) fix up the National Parks that are being loved to death and not getting enough maintenance, open public health clinics for desperate people with no health insurance, that kind of thing?
Who cares if they'd be less efficient than private business? Private business has turned its nose up at the whole thing, and less efficient accomplishments would be better than no accomplishments at all, which is what we're getting now. And people who earn money, however inefficient their production, buy winter coats and boots, work gloves and chicken and broccoli, pay their credit card bills and their mortgages--which would help get the economy growing again.
Just a thought.
Private business clearly doesn't see any short term benefit to itself in doing this, and doesn't want to take the risk. I understand that.
So, instead of trying to create more jobs by making the tax code more complicated, wouldn't it make more sense for the government to create more jobs by, you know, creating more jobs? By hiring people? To work? For the government?
Maybe they could do things like clean the snow off the streets (and while they're at it, fix the potholes) fix up the National Parks that are being loved to death and not getting enough maintenance, open public health clinics for desperate people with no health insurance, that kind of thing?
Who cares if they'd be less efficient than private business? Private business has turned its nose up at the whole thing, and less efficient accomplishments would be better than no accomplishments at all, which is what we're getting now. And people who earn money, however inefficient their production, buy winter coats and boots, work gloves and chicken and broccoli, pay their credit card bills and their mortgages--which would help get the economy growing again.
Just a thought.