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Why Creating Jobs Won’t Help Our Economy

Posted by Kathleen on Sep 9, 2011 | 0 comments

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. –Albert Einstein While this ubiquitous quote from one of the 20th Century’s greatest thinkers seems simple, it is amazing how often our country’s leaders seem to fall into this trap. Unlike a college football coach who after only running the ball up the middle to his team’s repeated demise would be fired after a few losses, we are willing to indulge continual mistakes from political leaders as they tell us they can fix the problem. Trying to assuage our concerns about the economy they say they can “create” more jobs instead of addressing a more fundamental...