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From: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: When is a Job Not Employment?
Message-ID: <925@usl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 13:41:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: usl.925
Posted: Wed Sep 17 13:41:18 1986
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Organization: USL, Lafayette, La.
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In article <3384@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP writes:
>David Olson writes:
>
>>>But to say the government provides no jobs is absolutely ridiculous!
>
>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. 
>
>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?

Wealth is produced by factories and farms, not by people sitting
behind desks. Their job is the management and redistribution of
wealth, not the production of wealth. As such, they are useful. But if
we start having more people shuffling papers behind government (and
industry) desks than there are producing wealth for the economy, the
U.S. shall truly become a third-world nation.

-- 

      Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
        (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)

  -- Tengo lo mismo que doy y solo sirve al presente.