But I object to it being called economic stimulus. It’s triage. It’s a one time expense that bears little or no economic fruit. Morally it’s a very defensible practice, but economically, it’s not a sustainable practice, and does not facilitate the types of activities that lead to good job growth.

The government cannot really create jobs. Jobs are created when people create viable profit-producing enterprises that need people to perform the functions of that enterprise. Government jobs can’t even exist unless the some of the profits from non-governmental activities are taxed to provide the money to pay government workers.

So as the government continues to borrow unimaginably vast sums of money to fund these sorts of “stimulus” packages, everyone ought to ask themselves “how and where will these expenditures foster the creation of new profitable enterprises that need workers?”

By the way, these need to be enterprises whose customers are NOT the government. If the new enterprises are simply selling their product to the government, we’re veering into Ponziland.