Reply #5: don't forget tax incentives

[maggrwaggr]

and don't forget good old corporate welfare -- the entire military-industrial complex is funded by the government (and therefore us).

Blackwater Security is hiring right now, that's all government money.

Halliburton has several new openings I hear. That's all government money.

Scientific research funded by the federal government creates all KINDS of new technologies that are then capitalized on by the private sector.

Then there's good ol' FDR new deal stuff. Pour money into the economy, whether for roads, or dams or WCC projects, things tend to happen.

That's basic kensyan economics.