Quote Originally Posted by creaker View Post
Most entitlements get spent as consumer dollars - consumer spending is like 70% of the economy. I think this creates more jobs than some corporation buying a synthetic CDO betting on how someone else's portfolio is going to move.
Not me. I will take a system of market based investment decisions over a government distribution system any day. Are there bumps in the road? Sure. But in the long run I think more jobs will come from individual liberty than centralized social entitlemnents. By your logic the USSR should have in fact buried us by now.