G Alston:
The fallacy in your argument is your assumption that the jobs you claim to have been created by the government would not exist except *for* the government. Just the opposite, the government prevents far, far, far more jobs *from* being created than it allows *to* be created. Take your example of thorium reactors. The reason we don’t have thousands of people working to build them is because the government, led by Harry Reid, has said “NO!!! You cannot do that!” Take Reid and his fellow luddites and deport them for 20 years and we would be free from dependence on oil forever. Remove 95% of government regulations and millions of jobs would be created. Eliminate corporate taxes and the entire world’s supply of jobs would flock over here. “Government created jobs”, what a laugh!
