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Byron Matthews, a sociologist retired from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a partner in an educational software company, lives near Santa Fe, NM.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Plan

Ed Morrissey at Hotair.com :
As part of his “hard pivot” towards jobs, Barack Obama announced last week a new program to stimulate “green jobs” with a $2.3 billion federal program. Mark Tapscott took a look at the particulars of the grants and checked with the Institute of Energy Research, which had already grabbed its calculator. The bill aims to create 17,000 jobs, mainly temporary, which means that we’ll spend over $135,000 per job in stimulus...

Please. The only "hard pivot" towards jobs in the Obama Plan is away from private-sector jobs and toward Government-funded jobs. It's all about expanding the public sector at the expense of the private sector. "Stimulus" has nothing to do with it, except to provide the opportunity and the excuse for socializing the work force.
Nirvana will be reached when the work force is made up entirely of unionized Government employees, who owe their jobs, pay, and benefits to the Democratic Party. Or to the Republican Party. It'll be all Government, all the time, no matter what label it hangs on itself.

Working for the Government is, by definition, working for the Common Good, while working in the private sector is working for selfish profit at the expense of your fellow citizens. In the Fair Society, everyone will be working for the Common Good, enabling each of us to receive according to our needs, from a Government that will decide what those needs are, and are not.

George Orwell, please call your office.

Byron

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