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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Did he pay a contractor to do it? Did it thus create even a short-term job? Did he buy the fencing materials from his local store?
All this talk about "documented jobs created" seems to me to be missing the point.
If you spend, say, ten million, even if you directly employ a few dozen people, that ten million is out there flowing around the economy, and every time it gets spent and respent, someone's job is made a little safer.
Until the money flows to China, of course.
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I would buy that if so much of the money has been documented to not have created any jobs. They may hire one guy to help them put in the fence. He is one of the undocumented helpers they have on hand. Maybe he can feed his wife and kids for another week. I guess you could say they did help by the purchase of goods, I mean help the guy in China, since almost all the steel posts, wire, and PVC comes from there. Sure we just stimulated China's economy again.