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If you want to know why $800 billion in government stimulus spending
has created 9 percent unemployment, all you have to do is look at the
windmill in Milwaukee.
The project involves a single wind turbine 154 feet tall (small by
today's standard) that is supposed to supply some electricity to the
Milwaukee Port Authority. The $500,000 project is being built with
$400,000 in federal stimulus money and another $100,000 from the
Wisconsin Focus on Energy Program. It's been several years in the
making but things finally seemed ready to go last month when the city
finally put the project out to bid. The winner, Kettle Renewable
Enterprises, had small subcontracts of $2,000 for
women-and-minority-owned firms in its $500,000 offer. However, city
alderman Robert Bauman decided this wasn't enough. He vetoed the
project, saying more woman-and-minority firms should have been
included. "If that means losing $500,000, then we'll lose $500,000,"
Bauman told the press. [full]
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Green
Lantern says it's not the women-and-minorities part—
it's that with government everybody has to have a say in what gets
done. That's true enough, but in his example it's clearly that
there are people in government who care more about diversity than
outcome. And those people are always, like Bauman,
Democrats. Always. Conclusion:
- The reason why only private enterprise creates
jobs is simple. Business decisions are made by one person. If the product or service has a market,
production expands. Enough bad
decisions and the business disappears.
- Governments should
probably only make about a dozen decisions (legislation) a year;
none of them concerning private enterprise.
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