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To: SilentZ who wrote (469008)	4/5/2009 12:14:33 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578510

It's best if those jobs are doing things that not only are actually productive (not just digging holes and filling them in again) but that improve the country. So, I guess Z agrees that the provision in the stimulus bill providing unemployment benefits extension/services was a mistake.

To: SilentZ who wrote (469008)	4/5/2009 1:35:02 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578510

Z, > The biggest part of the stimulus has to be creating jobs for people. It's best if those jobs are doing things that not only are actually productive (not just digging holes and filling them in again) but that improve the country. Of course you have to put them to good use if you think "creating jobs" should be a function of the government. You and Ted brought up broken bridges and levees as justification for more government spending and more government intervention. I said fixing those should be basic things our existing tax money ought to be doing. We're never going to ask whether our tax money is being put to the best use if we keep adopting the mentality of throwing money at a problem. Tenchusatsu