Wednesday, February 26, 2025

HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THESE ARE GOVERNMENT JOBS

Adding to the previous post, what I meant is that most arguments against this stuff just concede the point, even when the point is nonsensical.  Especially when the point is nonsensical.

Their argument, to the extent there is one, is that jobs created under Biden were fake because of the IRA, that any jobs touched by government money don't count. 

New Deal era: government should do some stuff.
Neoliberal era: government shouldn't do anything itself, but instead should outsource or use tax incentives.
Post-neoliberal era: government shouldn't do anything except give oil companies and elon money.

Anyway, you don't win this by claiming AKSHUALLY THESE AREN'T GOVERNMENT JOBS.