Reply #17: Welcome to DU.

[hay rick]

You can probably use the word "bullshit" here without offending anyone. My apologies if "bullchit" is just a typo.

I agree that the conservative assertion that government can't create jobs is their shorthand for the belief that government activity can not result in a NET increase in employment because "for every job Government could create, the private sector could (always) create more with the same amount of money." It's straight faith-based, flat earth economics.

Unfortunately, we live in an era when inconvenient facts and counter-examples can simply be ignored by right-wing politicians with no fear that they will get someday get their noses rubbed in it by the media.

edit: typo