It May Not Be Employment, But It Certainly Is Keeping Us Busy
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
As the Obama Administration and leaders of The Party work to get as much credit as possible for all the jobs they say that they saved or created with their outpouring of federal funds – employment numbers have continued to sink with both state and federal unemployment numbers continuing to soar. While we’re standing around (many unemployed) I guess we can just be happy over the politicians taking credit for the jobs that they think they saved or created.
In a lot of ways the debate over whether the federal stimulus spending resulted in saved or created jobs is like the Climate Change thing – experts get credit for information that isn’t real, but through the endless debate and often repeated citations of the made-up numbers, the “truth” is established as maybe being real. Another similar connection is that both federal stimulus spending and Climate Change are based on government, big government, being “the solution”…regardless of whether anything actually gets accomplished.
As the Nevada News Bureau has continued to offer reports on those who aren’t guzzling the Kool-Aid of how the federal government’s spending binge didn’t save us all, the reasonable and logical questions by Senator Raggio deserve consideration…
Lifting the economy with government largess is like standing in a bucket, pulling up on the handle and thinking you can raise yourself off the ground – except that in the case of the government largess they harm us all by taking the money away from those who actually can create jobs and grow an economy.
Ultimately, the solution needs to be accomplished at the ballot box in 2010, making those elected officials who spend so freely, money that’s not theirs, unemployed.
As the Obama Administration and leaders of The Party work to get as much credit as possible for all the jobs they say that they saved or created with their outpouring of federal funds – employment numbers have continued to sink with both state and federal unemployment numbers continuing to soar. While we’re standing around (many unemployed) I guess we can just be happy over the politicians taking credit for the jobs that they think they saved or created.
In a lot of ways the debate over whether the federal stimulus spending resulted in saved or created jobs is like the Climate Change thing – experts get credit for information that isn’t real, but through the endless debate and often repeated citations of the made-up numbers, the “truth” is established as maybe being real. Another similar connection is that both federal stimulus spending and Climate Change are based on government, big government, being “the solution”…regardless of whether anything actually gets accomplished.
As the Nevada News Bureau has continued to offer reports on those who aren’t guzzling the Kool-Aid of how the federal government’s spending binge didn’t save us all, the reasonable and logical questions by Senator Raggio deserve consideration…
1. How reasonable is it to believe that without the federal government’s stimulus spending that Nevada would have 4,000 less teachers? And,Perhaps if you keep taking credit for the invented number of jobs saved or created (and your loyal Party members repeat the contention) those voting to keep you in your job might fall for the idea that the uncontrolled spending of their money is good for them. The one truth that doesn’t get repeated enough is the fact that before the government can give money to someone – they have to take it away from someone.
2. If the federal stimulus spending saved or created so many jobs – why do we have so many unemployed people (with the numbers still growing)?
Lifting the economy with government largess is like standing in a bucket, pulling up on the handle and thinking you can raise yourself off the ground – except that in the case of the government largess they harm us all by taking the money away from those who actually can create jobs and grow an economy.
Ultimately, the solution needs to be accomplished at the ballot box in 2010, making those elected officials who spend so freely, money that’s not theirs, unemployed.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 11/13/2009 5:36 AM 
Categories: Economy
Tags: Unemployment Federal Stimulus Nevada
Categories: Economy
Tags: Unemployment Federal Stimulus Nevada
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