Seems Napoleon tested that jobs program theory retreating from mother Russia, and got about the same result in a different, sort of, way.

Teenagers have a similar appetite but the difference lies in the hope they will change naturally and eventually not require so many calories to feed the change, and while it is a stretch some even eventually contribute to there own feeding or assume the task entirely, leaving their parents to restock and replenish their stores.

I envision no growing up of the Union/Bureaucrat. I anticipate no seed for planting, no fertile soil to plant in and no available muscle to plow, much less to plant as the bummers have eaten the geese and the goats shorn the sheep bagged the chickens and are pulling the tools the furniture and even the symphonium with traces filled with the milkers and a mule.

It isn’t so much the amount of the waste even as it is the lack of equilibrium.

I will grant consideration of the jobs program, but would not consider that a well thought out jobs plan.