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The government doesn't create jobs, except

by: Lucy Edwards

Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 14:03:15 PM EDT
( - promoted by Dean Barker)

We have all heard over and over how the government doesn't create jobs from our NH Republicans.  Well, the NH Business Review has an article about the current crop of candidates and what sort of jobs they have had before their current endeavors to be employed by we the people.

And I bet you can guess what the story tells.
Lucy Edwards :: The government doesn't create jobs, except
Considering she's the one we've started the research report off with, let's look at Ayotte's resume: deputy attorney general for the state of New Hampshire; counsel to the governor of the state of New Hampshire; and attorney general of the state of New Hampshire. Analysis: They all look like public sector-created jobs to us.

Frank Guinta, 1st Congressional District candidate: insurance consultant; staffer to former Congressman Jeb Bradley; mayor of Manchester, N.H. Analysis: one of three in the private sector, batting .333.

And it goes on, and the story they tell tell doesn't get any prettier from there.  

But then we are used to buying a pig in a poke from this gang, aren't we.

Disclosure: the only government job I have had was being a selectwoman for three years.  I made a whopping $2500 for two of the those years, and got $3500 the year I was chair.
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Ouch! (4.00 / 1)
They actually referred to Jennifer Horn as a "journalist" in the WMUR Granite State Poll of 2nd C.D. voters?

You should hear Horn's Rodney Dangerfield imitation. :v)

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

Just wait (0.00 / 0)
...til you are a State Rep for $200 per biennium, and the joy of being a charming anachronism.
And I have to be charming (4.00 / 2)
while I am doing it?  Nobody told me.  The anachronism part I can do.
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There's nothing wrong with working in the public sector. (4.00 / 1)
Talented people should be encouraged to consider it for the good of our society.

These hypocrites should know.

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@DougLindner

Well, it seems that private corporations perceive (0.00 / 0)
themselves to be in conflict with public corporations which, in actual fact, are responsible for creating them.  People who organize private corporations (including partnerships and LLCs) may be rather cavalier about what they are doing and give little thought to the contents and commitments (mission statements) in their charters,  but the fact remains that to be a corporation there has to be state approval, as well as the payment of annual fees to maintain active status.  That our states provide little supervision of corporations is a significant lapse but the aggressive attitude of corporations may well be designed to preempt any effort to regulate and keep the agents of government away.
The pretense that private corporations are just an aggregate of natural persons is, IMHO, a step too far.  Justice Kennedy referring to them as citizens compounds the problem.  Private corporations need to be categorized as similar to public corporations and strictly limited, from the outset, by their charters.  And, because states have no enforcement powers in other states or other nations, corporations which engage in interstate or international enterprise should be required to have a federal charter, as the Federal Reserve Bank does.

As I've said before, as it stands now, our private corporations are like teenagers whose dad pays the note, buys the gas and carries the insurance while the teen claims to be independent.  If we let them get away with it, shame on us.  Without proper supervision, a corporate charter is a license to kill under cover of law.  We need look no further than BP in the Gulf and the coal mines in West Virginia for examples.

It's because the nation has set up no enforcement mechanism for interstate and global corporations that we keep relying on bribes to gain their compliance with social objectives.

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What our government giveth (4.00 / 1)
our government can take away.  However, there is some question about the government having morphed into something other than "our" government over the past 40 or so years (I put "some question" in there just in case I am reading it wrong).  Looking back at the history of the economy since the founding, it really looks like we have had to take it back numerous times.  This time we better figure this out soon, or we may find ourselves living on a planet that is trying to reject us, metaphorically.  
I guess I come down on the side of those who want to "take our country back."  But I don't mean, like the Tea Party, in order to hand it over to the corporate welfare state again.  I want it to work for me, my children, and their children, and all of yours as well.  
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