- Aug 27, 2008
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That's nice, Kevin, but quite honestly I think the overall economic health of the country is a better goal than some Libertarian utopia where the USA ends up being a third world country.Yep. And the same is true about the private sector, it is far from a foregone conclusion that it will create more or better jobs.
Jobs are jobs. When the private sector cannot create them and in fact sheds them like is happening now, only the government can create jobs. That doesn't mean that the government does a better job, or should do it continually...it just means that at particular points in time it is the only one that can. At this point it doesn't matter who is creating jobs, it just matters that they are created.
When the private sector does not create a certain job, or "loses" a certain job that is a very important function of the market. It means that demand for that job is not wanted or at least not absolutely necessary, and that those resources for that job should be freed up for other uses.
This isn't a "Libertarian utopia" I'm talking about, this is economics. You can't fund a job at the expense of the taxpayers when they don't have enough use for that job to have it stand on it's own in the market. That doesn't add to the "economic health" of the country, that takes away from it.