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Seriously, Jonny, I defined it in my letter, for the purposes of this discussion. Jobs is producing a product for profit.
Lawyers (and I have a lovely lawyer daughter-in-law) can be engaged in a real job, producing a service (a non-tangible form of product) for profit, in that sense.
The lawyers in congress ae NOT DOING SUCH. If they screw up, as did Carter's crew with the Comm. Redevel. Act of 1977 and mandate insolvent loans, if Andrew Cuomo mandates even MORE insolvent loans, if Barney Frank and Chris Dodd cover up the insolvency, etc., etc., thus producing the OPPOSITE of a profit, does the government fold, fire the incompetents who caused the problem, act as any rational profit-constrained corporation would? No, indeed! They promote the incompetents, who then confiscate even more of our money to pay for their boondoggles!
That's NOT a real job. That's government!
