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Old 02-04-2004, 09:05 PM   #64
Easy Mac
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Originally Posted by Buccaneer
I just don't believe it is the federal govt's role to create jobs. All it should do is to get out of the way of entrepreneurship. Things will go in cycles (witness of the PC revolution of the 1980s and the Internet/telecom revolution of the 1990s) and the South with its relative lack of educated workforce seems always lag behind in the revolutions. You cannot keep making buggy-whips if it is not profitable to do so and the govt should not force that.

And the view you hold isn't the view most people hold, or else jobs would be low on people's lists of priorities while voting. However, here jobs are very important in influencing a person's vote.
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