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Obama's early stumbles

Readers ask, Camille dishes: On Democratic woes, the Weather Underground, Kanye West, Freud, alleged gay genes and "the long sleep."
By Camille Paglia

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  • Thursday, January 15, 2009 01:59 PM

    @ SailFree

    The output of a job is goods or services. Profitability is more a function of business, not employment per se. Even companies that are going out of business employ people in jobs. Government workers also have jobs and produce stuff...stuff you apparently don't value, like roads and scientific research and such.

    People who work for the government do in fact have jobs, in spite of your private definition.

    —John Anderson Read John Anderson's other letters

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