Cog wrote:Your error is you somehow believe that the government's job is to create jobs.
If government isn't supposed to look out for the People then what's the purpose of government? Just to enforce your oligarchy?
Jobs for the plebs was an issue even in ancient Rome. The Republic fell because the rich patrician Senators were ignoring the working man. Imported slaves had taken too many jobs. Caesar was popular with the people, one of his first measures was a law restricting foreign slave employment so that free Romans could find work.
History proves.. ignore the People at your own peril.
Austerity is nothing to be afraid of.
Small businesses should be afraid of it. Your customers don't just grow on trees -- they're working folks, retirees, gov employees. Deflation isn't fun for anybody Cog but the rich, who can swoop in to buy asssets for pennies on the dollar. A lot of small business guys would go bankrupt.
EDIT: Some more thoughts on this..
Cog you are right that too much employment in the gov sector isn't good. BUT.. during economic recession / depression, gov needs to hire MORE workers not fire them. It juices up the economy, it's the only thing that can get a country out of depression. Once the private sector starts to heat up and even inflate, THEN you can cut back on the gov sector.
But you don't cut back on gov during a recession, that just makes it worse.
OTOH, Western developed nations are trending to gov workers. That's all we have in the globalist paradigm -- America's job is to be a consumer. Japan makes things, they fight to keep their yen valued lowered than the dollar. Japan wants to make things and wants us to consume them, same with China. Like it or not, that's where we Americans fit in the grand scheme of things.
Maybe 30 years from now China and India will have its own consumer base and won't need us, but that's not yet the case. For the moment the world wants America to keep consuming.