Ahem. And of course we've had like three waves of economists saying it was good/bad/good and it's not a solution to the problems we have today, but jobs can be created. How old is your house? Because if it existed in 1938, city hall has a picture of it. Why? Because they needed to create some jobs, so they hired photographers to take pictures of every house in Seattle.This began with the idea that someone can just magically "create jobs", which is completely backwards. A need occurs, and then you find people to fill that need.
Right. And I think we are saying the same thing, although I am doing it less elegantly. The problem was people were not working. So they invented the New Deal, WPA, and photographing every house in Seattle. Those projects then needed to be executed on. So contractors were hired. Who then put out job postings. And filled jobs. The government created the need. Not the Jobs. Which brings me back to "jobs are a symptom that a need is going unfilled."