Beyond me.

Editor,

Businesses "create jobs" when they do not have enough employees to keep up with demand for their products or services.

When demand is depressed because consumers are unemployed or otherwise unable or unwilling to spend money, there is no reason for a business to "create jobs." Why on Earth would a business in such an economy spend money "creating jobs" to produce goods for which there is no market?

That is why government steps in, borrows money, and "creates jobs" in a depressed economic environment. When unemployment is high, business is bad, and businesses have no reason to "create jobs," government hires people to do much-needed work repairing infrastructure, thus putting money in these employees' pockets, increasing demand for goods and services, and bootstrapping the economy.

Why Republicans refuse to understand this, unless they are truly evil accomplices of ruthless thieves, is utterly beyond me.

re: "Downgrade Debate Moves to Talk Shows" (8/7/2011)