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Maynard says:

Peter Schiff knows his stuff. Notice how he made the distinction between productive work (that results in the creation of goods or services that people value and will voluntarily pay for) and make-work (artificial government jobs that put people to work washing rocks at the beach or the like, so unemployment goes down and a crony gets a check, but there’s no productivity to show for it, and thus the nation’s output slips). Typical government policy is based upon the underlying absurd assumption that we can consume our way to prosperity. The only thing to come out of this stimulus is we crash the dollar and put our kids in debt and raise employment in China. By the way, Peter Schiff is the son of Irwin Schiff, who wrote a great book, “The Biggest Con: How the Government is Fleecing You”. Irwin Schiff eventually joined the tax protesters, and the government locked him up for non-payment, and he remains in jail to this day. It’s a sad story.

Please forgive a tasteless double entendre, but it seems to fit. When Tammy talked about how Washington “kills jobs”, I was thinking another phrase might do the trick. “The Democrats don’t know how to create jobs, all they do is blow jobs.”