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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (551905)	3/15/2004 12:20:26 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well what it does illustrate is that over the long run, paying MORE into government does not change the employment picture. The author takes a cut and paste approach to something that should be looked at in a more macro sense. But I understand why he did it, he needed to work the numbers to support his conclusion which he stated in the final line of his piece. Clinton, good. Well, not so fast. Government spending (at all levels) under Clinton exploded (and I think we'll see that explosion continue as the current crop of "conservatives" have seen that doling out goodies is the way to remain in office.) Yet total employment has changed but little. I say total employment to draw the distinction between the public and private sector. WE all know public sector employment has grown dramatically, therefore it is in the private sector, where REAL economic activity happens that jobs have not been produced. Bottomline, the more capital that is sucked into government hands then exchanged in a goodies for votes quid pro quo, the less free we become.