{"id":4069,"date":"2010-03-03T12:13:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:49:54","slug":"yelling-jobs-in-a-crowded-senate-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4069\/yelling-jobs-in-a-crowded-senate-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelling &#8220;Jobs!&#8221; in a Crowded Senate Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s <em>Washington Times<\/em> has a morosely humorous article discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/03\/lawmakers-cry-jobs-to-push-through-bills\/ \" target=\"_blank\">the current fetish for \u201cjobs creation\u201d bills in Congress<\/a>.\u00a0 From confiscating beachfront property to establishing a non-profit government entity to promote travel, nearly every bill in Congress is being fitted into a jobs frame that makes it difficult to oppose on its claims.\u00a0 But not, of course, on the substance.<\/p>\n<p>For that, we need look no farther than the end of the liberty-loving economics student\u2019s book shelf for a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Hazlitt\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Hazlitt<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/fee.org\/library\/books\/economics-in-one-lesson\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Economics in One Lesson<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 After explaining why full employment is only and always the means to achieving the proper goal of full production, Hazlitt takes aim at the predecessors of our latter day misguided politicos:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet our legislators do not present Full Production bills in Congress but Full Employment bills.\u00a0\u00a0 Even committees of businessmen recommend \u2018a President\u2019s Commission on Full Employment,\u2019 not on Full Production, or even on Full Employment <em>and<\/em> Full Production.\u00a0 Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So too, is the credibility of any member of Congress who thinks that the answer to spurring economic growth comes from anything other than lower, simpler taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Washington Times has a morosely humorous article discussing the current fetish for \u201cjobs creation\u201d bills in Congress.\u00a0 From confiscating beachfront property to establishing a non-profit government entity to promote travel, nearly every bill in Congress is being fitted into a jobs frame that makes it difficult to oppose on its claims.\u00a0 But not, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[921,920,454,579],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economics-in-one-lesson","tag-henry-hazlitt","tag-job-creation","tag-jobs-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}