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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KonKilo who wrote (340134)	1/8/2003 11:28:16 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

<<After all, gov't is the greatest make-work entity in the nation. What would the unemployment rate look like if we suddenly had a significantly smaller gov't? Would private enterprise be able to take up the slack?>> If the money they should be using to create jobs wasn't being confiscated to pay for the thousand permanant Enrons that IS government, there would be labor shortages...

To: KonKilo who wrote (340134)	1/8/2003 11:50:45 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

what if the fact that the gov't is huge and inefficient is exactly the reason that, even in a down cycle, our economy is still the envy of the world? Well, off the top of my head, reducing the number of gov't employees, as well as putting some curbs on gov't employee benefits, would provide more money for other programs. You have a point. With private enterprise suffering, it likely won't take up the slack. There are other ways to improve gov't's efficiency as well...