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Laelth

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1. Hear, hear!

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2013, 09:05 AM

Oct 2013

When the private sector can not produce enough jobs, the public sector should step in and fill the gap. There are plenty of public projects that need doing.

The problem, of course, is that our oligarchs love the cheap labor created by a labor surplus, so they resist allowing the government to do anything about this. How to convince our oligarchs that we're all better off when we all have money to spend is the issue of the day.

That's what needs to be done.

-Laelth

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