Unemployment benefits are not supposed to provide jobs, as you well know. They are there for support for people who lose their jobs.
Of course I know that. But we were talking about saving or creating jobs. And you cited that as a use of money that would help create jobs. I was just pointing out that it wasn't. I'm glad you agree.
And sure, $150 billion spent in country would have more effect than things in Iraq (if we bought home grown products, that is -- not if we spent it all at Walmart on Malaysian products!). Just pointing out that the difference between spending it there and here wasn't the full $150 billion, but something less than that-- how much less neither of us knows.
And let's keep in mind that the money we spent rebuilding Germany, France, Italy, England, and Japan after WWII has benefited us many, many, many times over. It's a good thing that folks back home then weren't squawking about all that money flooding overseas to help our former enemies. If the arguments you're making now about spending money in Iraq had prevailed then about spending money in Europe, the world would be lot different, and poorer, place. |
