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The entire government is comprised almost exclusively of people who have never held a real job, never produced goods for a profit--have done nothing but make decisions on how to appropriate and spend OTHER PEOPLE's MONEY.
WHY, on why, do we think LAWYERS know how to run businesses and direct our lives? Lawyers are, by nature and training, players in a zero-sum game wherein they look for victims and assign guilt to somebody. THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE!
The business sector is not zero-sum. The economy can be GROWN, producing more for all, rather than causing it to stagnate by taking from the productive and redistributing wealth to those who have not demonstrated any propensity to utilize the wealth properly. Buying bling does not help the economy significantly.
A bigger widescreen does not benefit the economy all that much.
Investing, inventing, growing a business--these things benefit the economy. Relatively mindless consuming is not the answer.
