RECORD 4.3 million Americans Quit their job in August.

fmw · Oct 24, 2021

jcarlilesiu said: ↑

That's simply not true. Though I think government is largely inefficient, they absolutely stimulate economic development. And they can do so in multiple formats.

Taking Bond dollars and awarding projects to engineers, contractors, etc., has a huge ability to stimulate the economy.

Building an Air Craft carrier as an example puts hundreds of thousands of people to work.

The United States government and the individual States are the largest procuring of business from an economic perspective than any company.

I think what you are trying to say here is that they can't increase our GNP, including those items traded on the overseas market. In that case, most certainly they still can.

You know who owns all the ports the cargo ships are backed up in? Government. You know who owns all of the Airports that moves people and cargo around the world? Government.

Without the infrastructure, which requires economic stimulation to build, there would be no way for private industry to get their products into the ports of trade partners overseas.

I am a small business guy, but you are approaching this debate from a very illogical perspective. Who's going to build the roads you drive on? That isn't safety or security related.

We have to be logical in our debate in the name of smaller government, and taking a fringe approach denying that government is incapable of stimulating the economy is not going to do it.
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I didn't say government should do nothing. I said it should stay away from trying manage the economy which it can't really do. Most of what federal government does goes beyond its appropriate goal in my view and I'm sticking to that view.

Nonnie · Oct 24, 2021

fmw said: ↑

Inflation is a bad thing every time. Wage increases are a part of the problem. They help a little but the rate of wage increase is below that of the price increases. the Whole thing starts with government spending money it doesn't have. Wage increases happen along the way with price increases.
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I don't agree because inflation drives consumption. When there are unused labour and resources, inflation helps increase production.

jcarlilesiu · Oct 24, 2021

fmw said: ↑

I didn't say government should do nothing. I said it should stay away from trying manage the economy which it can't really do. Most of what federal government does goes beyond its appropriate goal in my view and I'm sticking to that view.
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I agree with that. I'm a small government guy.

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