Yet Another Reason Hillary Is Wrong
Now she’s promising she’s going to create 3 million jobs.
Allow me to translate that into “regular folk” language from the original “politician.”
When she says “It’s time for a different approach. I’ll fight for every single job in America — and create millions of new, high paying jobs that can’t be outsourced. We’re trying to run today’s economy on yesterday’s infrastructure — and we’re jeopardizing tomorrow’s prosperity. So I will rebuild America — by rebuilding, repairing and modernizing our infrastructure.”
What she means is: “I’ll put more money into contracts to large government contractors who will hire a few more people to inspect bridges or whatever, but mostly they’ll pocket the cash. My advisers say that if the contractors actually did the work we’d be paying them for, they’d probably need to hire about 200,000 people, and the other 2.8 million will find jobs helping those people do their jobs.”
She makes the same kind of impossible promises that politicians have always made. I think we’re tired of being placated to, which is part of Obama’s appeal. He doesn’t claim to have all the answers, but he says he’ll help us figure out how to fix it ourselves instead of promising to wipe our noses for us.