re: #588 Dr. Shalit

John Adams -

Want 100% Employment except for invalids? Easy to do! - Team 1 Digs Holes, when they are done, Team 2 goes in - To Fill Them Up. 100% Able Bodied Employment - and so on.
Does this produce any “WEALTH?” - Hell NO. Only keeps people busy. People being “busy” is a good thing. People being busy creating wealth for themselves and their families is Even Better.

-S-

Taking money from one group of people so you can give it to another group of peole doesn’t create any wealth, either. If I make $100, and the government takes $50 of it from me and gives it to you to pay you for saving mice in California, how much money do the two of us have to spend? $100, by my count, the same as what I had in the first place.