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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: KonKilo who wrote (102966)2/3/2009 4:03:24 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542256
 
I believe the point was created a "net job", even though that phrase was not used. The argument being that government jobs are created by the government, but it means that some other job won't get created somewhere else.

There is some truth behind that argument, but its not so perfectly true that I would find the argument "not in the history of mankind has the government every created a job" to be reasonable. In fact considering the indirect effects of government spending I'd say its obviously wrong since vital public goods get funded by government spending.

Even if the majority of government spending (at least the majority of federal spending) goes to areas that aren't vital public goods, the portion that does, indirectly helps the economy and thus creates net jobs. If you don't spend on vital public goods (for example keeping the peace and basic security) then the economy won't do nearly as well.
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