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- From: rex@iqsc.COM (Rex Black)
- Subject: Re: Nightline and Presidential Cantidates
- Organization: IQ Software Corp.
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:58:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.145844.24575@iqsc.COM>
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- Lawrence Hughes writes:
- Dennis Bednarek writes:
- >> ... If Clinton
- >> can force private industry to hire 1,000,000 unempolyed
- > ^^^^^
- >> Americans at a living wage that means the goverment would
- >> have an additional 14,000,000,000.00.
- >I can't call him a FASCIST...[but he is] a SOCIALIST...
-
- This kind of thing really adds more heat than light to the discussion.
- Ad hominem attacks have nothing to do with the issues.
-
- >So where are these million jobs supposed to come from?
-
- This is the real point, which Larry Hughes obscures with personal attacks.
- Government can not directly create private-sector jobs. If gov't were to
- "force", cajole, legislate or "incentivize" private industry into hiring
- people for whom no real work existed, this would simply transfer the
- expenses of welfare and other public assistence onto the consumers of the
- products produced by the victim companies. (Some argue that the profits
- of the victim companies would also go down.) The impact on productivity
- at these companies would be two-fold: First, adding man-power that does
- not increase production reduces productivity by definition; Second, a
- culture of sloth and busy-work tends to infect a whole company once
- introduced.
-
- Rex
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