Government Spending Doesn't Create Jobs

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In the debate of job creation and how best to pursue it as a policy goal, one point is forgotten: Government doesn't create jobs. Government only diverts resources from one use to another, which doesn't create new employment.

Video produced by Caleb Brown and Austin Bragg.

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[Snoopz0087]

No you dolt, lobbyists want MORE government spending! Why? So that the industry they're lobbying on behalf of gets federal funding and/or special treatment and they only have to kick back a portion of the money they make to the politician's campaign funds.

[NiceGuyCody]

Hopw does someone become as big of a fucking moron as you are without forgetting how to breathe first?

[Kelso Anderson]

Solution: maximum worker productivity

[johanexxxx]

If government spending does not create jobs then I guess a public teacher does not really have a job, nor does a policeman. nor does a postal worker or a solider.

I guess building a public bridge does not create jobs it just uses slaves instead, right?

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[ymkamara420]

"But many people who have knowledge or been to an economics class in college voted for Romney or Gary Johnson." That is why Obama won 9 out of ten of the most educated states and Mitt Romney on 9 out of ten least educated states.

[Richard Brown]

Sam,

This Video is false, the correlation that they quote is non-existant. All spending creates jobs, government spending goes into private hands thru contractors like for example our road system. Obama voters do not hate the Rich, they just want to see them fund more of the cost of national defense, etc... Aircraft carrier task groups are not free good.

[Sam Fisher]

Most obama voters have no knowledge or education in economics, they just to be showered with free stuff, obamaphone,etc, which comes from the hard working higher class, also most obama voters hate rich ppl.

But many people who have knowledge or been to an economics class in college voted for Romney or Gary Johnson.

Even Liberatarians voted for romney or Johnson, they are not even republican, most liberals always wanna play the republican card, they cant learn anything.

[commiekiller1989]

Oh, how cute, looks like somebody doesn't understand that large corporations love regulation because they can afford it while their smaller competitors can't. A level playing field? That's exactly what I advocate, no regulation, no way for any company to gain any political influence.

Good luck, I'm going to need it? Man aren't you just full of yourself.

[benandreas369]

eh, they kind of dont. If you are a poor person, you can't afford organic food, which sadly, the reason why they are so expensive, is because of the huge regulations on the small farmer, but the big corporations get a pass, kind of like Monsanto. The roles should be reversed, or at least a level playing field. Watch Food Inc. Oh, Im still wating for you to rebuttal my message I sent you. Check your inbox, good luck... you're gonna need it.

[commiekiller1989]

Yeah... because people don't have ability to choose what they want to eat so let's have the government tell them....