Businesses do not make or create jobs, and Mr. Trump (or any other politician or person) has never made or created a job in his life, except for jobs he has given his family members or close friends.
What Trump has done is provided a product which he could produce, market, and maintain on his own, and he hired people to work for him. If a business "makes" a job, it simply invents a position to give to someone. The income that person earns does not reflect the reciprocal value they give to the business. Nor does a business pay any more than it must for the labor and services it must employ to provide its product or service. From a business standpoint, a business should not "make" jobs, and it should not pay more than it must.
Governments, also, should not "make or create" jobs. Government (or in other words, communities) should only do what businesses, private institutions, and individuals cannot, will not, or refuse to do. What “needs” to be done are those activities that create a healthy, safe, free, secure, and sustainable living space for the populace--including all of its flora and fauna. In doing that, communities should provide the value that is proportionate to the taxes the populace has paid for that value. If the value delivered fails to be proportionate, or it is detrimental to the health, safety, freedom, security, and sustainability of the populace and all of its flora and fauna, it should be eliminated or reformed.
Except in small city states, no businesses, private institutions, and individuals have (without marshaling the power of government within its communities) provided or created the following, for the populace and ecosystem:
1. Provided security from internal and external threats.
2. Provided civil dispute mechanisms.
3. Created infrastructures.
4. Created educational institutions and healthcare systems.
5. Maintained the purity and sustainability of its ecosystems.
6. Assured a meritocracy of upward mobility, and maintained balance between the ruling class and the working class so that one did not act in ways destabilizing to the other. (Poverty and the concentration of power/wealth are destabilizing.)
It is not the absence of government that promotes progress, it is harnessing its virtues in a manner that is balanced, efficient, and effective.
Many failed states live up to the impracticable conservative ideal of either becoming a bloated military and police state that threatens its citizens or world security directly, or becoming a weak disintegrating factional state that maintains a layered society of polarized classes of abject poverty. In the latter, the unimaginably wealthy threaten world security indirectly because the anger of its masses, like water leaking from a pressurized pipe, is unleashed upon the world.
These failed states are countries where there is no compromise. These are countries where the rulers’ and entrepreneurs’ concern does not extend beyond their own class and family. That's what conservatives desire: a dictatorship, weak or strong.
Balance is not a luxury. It is a necessity that neither the left nor the right can maintain without the other.
Loren M. Lambert, May 13, 2016 ©
What Trump has done is provided a product which he could produce, market, and maintain on his own, and he hired people to work for him. If a business "makes" a job, it simply invents a position to give to someone. The income that person earns does not reflect the reciprocal value they give to the business. Nor does a business pay any more than it must for the labor and services it must employ to provide its product or service. From a business standpoint, a business should not "make" jobs, and it should not pay more than it must.
Governments, also, should not "make or create" jobs. Government (or in other words, communities) should only do what businesses, private institutions, and individuals cannot, will not, or refuse to do. What “needs” to be done are those activities that create a healthy, safe, free, secure, and sustainable living space for the populace--including all of its flora and fauna. In doing that, communities should provide the value that is proportionate to the taxes the populace has paid for that value. If the value delivered fails to be proportionate, or it is detrimental to the health, safety, freedom, security, and sustainability of the populace and all of its flora and fauna, it should be eliminated or reformed.
Except in small city states, no businesses, private institutions, and individuals have (without marshaling the power of government within its communities) provided or created the following, for the populace and ecosystem:
1. Provided security from internal and external threats.
2. Provided civil dispute mechanisms.
3. Created infrastructures.
4. Created educational institutions and healthcare systems.
5. Maintained the purity and sustainability of its ecosystems.
6. Assured a meritocracy of upward mobility, and maintained balance between the ruling class and the working class so that one did not act in ways destabilizing to the other. (Poverty and the concentration of power/wealth are destabilizing.)
It is not the absence of government that promotes progress, it is harnessing its virtues in a manner that is balanced, efficient, and effective.
Many failed states live up to the impracticable conservative ideal of either becoming a bloated military and police state that threatens its citizens or world security directly, or becoming a weak disintegrating factional state that maintains a layered society of polarized classes of abject poverty. In the latter, the unimaginably wealthy threaten world security indirectly because the anger of its masses, like water leaking from a pressurized pipe, is unleashed upon the world.
These failed states are countries where there is no compromise. These are countries where the rulers’ and entrepreneurs’ concern does not extend beyond their own class and family. That's what conservatives desire: a dictatorship, weak or strong.
Balance is not a luxury. It is a necessity that neither the left nor the right can maintain without the other.
Loren M. Lambert, May 13, 2016 ©
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