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January 20, 2004
Bush Campaign Slogan: "Putting Iraqis Back to Work"
"Coalition to create 50,000 jobs in Iraq" is the misleading headline of this story.
"The US-led coalition unveiled a series of multi-billion-dollar reconstruction schemes on Monday to create 50,000 jobs across war-battered Iraq in the wake of violent demonstrations by the country’s disaffected unemployed.
"The 2,300 projects worth 12.4 billion dollars are also aimed at rehabilitating Iraq’s electricity, water, oil, health and transport infrastructure, David Nash, director of the coalition’s programme management office, told a news conference."
Now, just where do you suppose the "coalition" is going to get that $12.4 billion? Hmm??? Naturally, it's going to come out of the pockets of hard-working Americans, and it's going to go into the pockets of well-connected corporations like Halliburton.
In addition, of course, government can't "create" jobs. All it can do is transfer jobs from the productive private sector to the nonproductive public sector. For every job that Uncle Sam creates in Iraq, he has to take the money to pay for it from Americans who could have spent it here at home, thereby creating jobs in America. Instead, politically connected corporations and Iraqis will be handed the stolen money for "reconstruction," which will no doubt include many New Deal-style "make-work" jobs.
Then again, this shouldn't be a big surprise: Republican Representative Mac Collins of Georgia wrote just over a month ago that a "WPA jobs program similar to America's during the Great Depression is needed in Iraq."
*Sigh* Such are the vagaries of running an empire.
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How-ev-er, it gets worse...
"Another six billion dollars has been earmarked for training and equipment"
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"Nash admitted the budget was inadequate to fight chronic poverty and mass unemployment.
An extra four billion dollars held in reserve by Washington is also unlikely to make ends meet."
...It's really *at least* ten billion more.
$448,000 bucks per person to provide jobs for *four years*.
PS: The "jobs" don't have to be Iraqis: "While some contracts have already been awarded, the bulk will be finalised by March, with incentives offered to those who hire Iraqi workers and managers, and encouragement to use local suppliers."
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