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To: michael97123 who wrote (455493)	2/10/2009 2:52:43 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574637

Michael, > It may not reduce unemployment but it may prevent its increase. A convenient argument to fall back on. Economics is hardly an exact science. If the only aim of more government jobs is to reduce unemployment (or stop its decline), then I could argue for paying people to dig holes, then paying other people to fill them back up. Who cares what they are doing as long as that unemployment rate is under control and those who are being employed can "spend their pay as all folks do"? How about demanding some ROI? We're about to hand over 1/3 to 1/2 of the GDP to all levels of government. That should alarm anyone but the hard-core socialists. Tenchusatsu