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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: When is a Job Not Employment?
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Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 08:44:28 EDT
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David Olson writes:

>>But to say the government provides no jobs is absolutely ridiculous!

>I never said it doesn't provide jobs; just that they must come at the
>expense of other jobs.  Do you think they are free?  Dammit Tim, where
>the hell do you think wealth/jobs come from?  Do you think they fall out
>of the sky?

Well, this is strange way of talking.  If you look at this purely from the
cash flow point of view, there's no difference between a government job and
a supposedly private one.  Moreover, the "cost a job" way of looking at
things works to some extent in private industry too.

THis simply isn't a good way of looking at employment.  The Feds employ air
traffic controllers.  Can anyone deny that they help to facilitate the
making of wealth?

C. Wingate