cperciva--we can disagree, and you can think that what the govt is doing or has done in the past is great...but it is not working. we need to try something different. as long as the money is used to employ people...why should the govt care? it will get its payroll tax dollars from your brother weaving baskets...
as long as the money is used to employ people...why should the govt care?
Because the government could employ someone to do something useful. Pay them to build bridges. Or to repair hurricane-damaged homes. Or to write open source software. Or heck, pay them to run around in circles and burn off some of the famous American obesity.
I don't know what the best thing to pay people to do is, but I'm sure there's something useful the government could do if it's paying people anyway...
yeah...my hunch is that if you are going to invest money in a company, you don't want to waste your investment on a basket weaving business...you would pay someone to code something cool....
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cperciva--we can disagree, and you can think that what the govt is doing or has done in the past is great...but it is not working. we need to try something different. as long as the money is used to employ people...why should the govt care? it will get its payroll tax dollars from your brother weaving baskets...
as long as the money is used to employ people...why should the govt care?
Because the government could employ someone to do something useful. Pay them to build bridges. Or to repair hurricane-damaged homes. Or to write open source software. Or heck, pay them to run around in circles and burn off some of the famous American obesity.
I don't know what the best thing to pay people to do is, but I'm sure there's something useful the government could do if it's paying people anyway...
yeah...my hunch is that if you are going to invest money in a company, you don't want to waste your investment on a basket weaving business...you would pay someone to code something cool....