Monday, September 06, 2010

"Not Enough Labor Day"

How the government is destroying jobs.

Excerpt:

"Paying people not to work, barring them from taking wages they would be willing to accept, and penalizing companies that hire them? It's an ingenious formula for destroying jobs, and it seems to be working."

1 comment:

  1. Adam Smith writings are lengthy. But one of his ideas is that prohibiting or limiting workmen from engaging in that which they do best is very bad. But government does that ever more so. Unions too.

    http://books.google.com/books?id=jKr4NWJERbIC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=Adam+Smith+workman&source=bl&ots=AcrguVDDh9&sig=ALQ2YG_hmByijkrK6Fp5we9BgPY&hl=en&ei=h1KGTJO3KsP-8AaWgKHNAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&sqi=2&ved=0CDgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Adam%20Smith%20workman&f=false

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