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Originally Posted by Daseal
Not that I agree with the purchasing of the jets, but lets not act like the middle class gains nothing. A big part of these contracts is creating jobs for everyone from aerospace engineers to someone that manufactures sheet metal. Is may not be the payout some people see, but it's a paycheck. I'd rather see us find alternate way to create jobs, but there are positives that come from this for thousands of people.
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So, no jobs would be created if the money was left in the hands of taxpayers, or if there wasn't as much of a drain on the economy by the toll of the national debt?
The same can be said for EVERY government dollar spent, even for social net spending. Somewhere someone is receiving each of those dollars spent for services rendered. Whether it is a 75000 dollar a year engineer, or a 55000 dollar a year social service worker. In fact I highly doubt many minimum wage jobs are going into the production of those 32 planes (maybe if new facilities were needed, but even then with the security clearances probably needed, I imagine they were higher paying construction jobs). Conversely, in social net spending most all of those dollars are going to pay for mid level bureacrat salaries, and local construction, or money right back that gets put right back into the economy in the form of food or housing payments.
Point is just because some good comes from a reckless project (in defense or social net spending) doesn't mean that project has an overall good result.