Today’s Wall Street Journal includes several good letters concerning the Obama claim that large numbers of jobs have been “created or saved” due to his gusher of federal spending. Here’s one from a man in Charlotte that is right on target:
People are hired only when they contribute toward business’s profitability. If the only reason they are hired is because the employer is bribed (in the form of a stimulus) to hire them, then the “job” that they are hired for isn’t a real job.
To believe that government spending “creates” jobs is the real “voodoo economics.”
Stephen V. Gilmore
Charlotte, N.C.
