On 08/07/2011 02:03 PM, authfriend wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu<noozguru@...> wrote: >> So we keep growing until we have to send spaceships to the >> planets and stars because we've overgrown the planet like >> weevils infesting a bag of flour? > I think you've hallucinated that I said anything about > growing the population.
And you're hallucinating that I thought you said that. I didn't. Good joke I heard this week: if you lined up all the economists end-to-end they still would all point in different directions. >> And are we going to create "make work" jobs? Meaningless >> jobs that are only there to pay a wage? > I hope not. There'd be no reason to do that; there's > plenty that needs doing. But even "meaningless" jobs > would help, as the WPA did during the Depression. If > people are earning a wage, they're spending money, > which creates demand, which leads businesses to hire > people for meaningful jobs to create supply to fill > the demand. Eventually the "meaningless" jobs are no > longer necessary. > > <snip> That's the the FDR approach and many people favor that. In this day in age we might also favor helping people set up their own businesses. Are you opposed to cutting military spending?
