Spending and jobs

01/25/2010
As a marketing writer and technical editor for a major engineering firm, which includes oil and gas, I was struck by your comment that, according to "liberal theory," "…history suggests otherwise" that states create jobs by spending money (OGJ, Sept. 14, 2009, p. 88). Whatever history you are thinking about, it is a history mostly in your imagination and has no bearing on the real history about which historians write, students study, and the rest of us can, indeed do, know by reviewing even the most cursory evidence. States have always been catalysts for economic growth. This is demonstrated over and over, from ancient times to the present.The industrial revolut...

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