And For My Next Trick, I'll Create Jobs

The economy continues to slow and the unemployment rate continues to rise. I've already been laid off of one job in the past year and don't look forward to it happening again. The company I currently work for is a bit more financially sound than the previous one though, so I'm not too worried about it for the moment.

For those of you who have lost your job or are about to, have no fear because Obama is here and he is going to create 3,000,000 new jobs. I feel like every time I hear him speak he says he's going to create three million jobs. How exactly does that work? How do you just create millions of jobs and where does an exact number like that come from? Let's take a look at a few ways this could be accomplished.

The first way is the way that they supposedly plan to do it. With rebuilding the country's infrastructure. Okay fine, I have no problem with a more robust infrastructure. But here's my question: If these 3 million jobs were absolutely necessary for the country to function, then wouldn't they already exist? Sure, you can create the jobs but you can't create the need for these kind of jobs. It's either there or it isn't. And what would be the end result of this massive government project? Three million more people on the government payroll, either directly or indirectly through contracted companies. Where would the money for three million more government employees come from? And what would happen to these employees over time? I don't know about you but I've never known government to ever get smaller again once it expands. And if the government does create million of new jobs that weren't in fact necessary, all they've really done is throw a colossal amount of extra money down the welfare drain. Higher taxes for all would surely follow.

Another way that the new President wants to create jobs is by offering a $3,000 tax credit to employers for hiring new employees. Sure the employer is going to take the money but they are only going to hire someone if they need to. That $3,000 means nothing in comparison to the actual cost of employing someone. So again, with this method you can't just create jobs where there is no demand for a job.

The third and most dire way to create three million jobs is to start a war on the scale of World War 2. Most of these jobs would come in the form a reinstated military draft and the rest would come from manufacturing the weapons of war.

Personally, it annoys me whenever any politician claims to want to create jobs or claims to have created jobs in the past. The reality is that politicians have very little to do with job creation in a direct sense and they rely on the public being ignorant of that fact in order to get votes. My guess is that these three million jobs will never be created and that the economy will continue to spiral downward for the better part of Barack Obama's first term as President. Only time will tell if his and other politician's meddling in the economy will speed it's recovery or it's continued collapse. Whatever method is actually attempted to create these jobs will very possibly cause more economic instability, misery, heartache, and in some scenarios death. The surest, simplest, and least meddlesome way to quickly create jobs is to cut business taxes significantly. With more cash available those businesses can afford more employees.